Dictionary

rondeau en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/ (UK)
• /ˈɹɑnˌdoʊ/ (US)
• /ˌɹɑnˈdoʊ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.

Meanings

1. A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
   • Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […]. 1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, page 198:
   • First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre. 1991, Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs, page 50:
2. A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
   • […] for example, we might be tempted to think that his rondeaux also explore atypical compositional procedures. 2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, volume 1, page 61:
   • The rondeaus show great variety. There are two very short, apparently primitive rondeaus a 3. 1986, Richard L. Crocker, A History of Musical Style, page 125:
   • Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection? 1968, American Musicological Society, Journal of the American Musicological Society, volumes 21-22, page 434:
3. Synonym of rondeau pan; a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising.

Forms

Synonyms

rondeau pan

Translations (9)

de Rondeau (form of verse) · fi rondeau (form of verse) · fi rondeau (form of song) · ru ро́ндо (form of song) · mr राँडो (form of song) · ru ро́ндо (form of verse) · mr राँडो (form of verse) · bg рондо (form of song) · tl dalithunig (form of verse)