'Rondeau' definitions:

Definition of 'rondeau'

From: WordNet
noun
A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata [syn: rondo, rondeau]
noun
A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas [syn: rondeau, rondel]

Definition of 'Rondeau'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'rondeau'

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