Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rondo"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rondo \Ron"do\, n. [It. rond[`o], fr. F. rondeau. See
{Rondeau}.]
1. (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a
lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain
recurs after each of the other strains. ``The Rondo-form
was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for
musical construction.'' --Grove.
2. (Poetry) See {Rondeau}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See {Roundel}.] [Written also
{rondo}.]
1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a
refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed
law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by
rule.
Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly
written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes,
as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the
17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a
structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc.
Brit.
2. (Mus.) See {Rondo}, 1.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rondo
n : a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
[syn: {rondeau}]
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