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ron·deau

 (rŏn′dō, rŏn-dō′)
n. pl. ron·deaux (-dōz, -dōz′)
1. A lyrical poem of French origin having 13 or sometimes 10 lines with two rhymes throughout and with the opening phrase repeated twice as a refrain.
2. A medieval French song, either monophonic, as in the songs of the trouvères, or polyphonic in construction.
[French, alteration of Old French rondel; see rondel.]
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rondeau

(ˈrɒndəʊ)
n, pl -deaux (-dəʊ; -dəʊz)
(Poetry) a poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes and having the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain. See also roundel
[C16: from Old French, from rondel a little round, from rond round]
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ron•deau

(ˈrɒn doʊ, rɒnˈdoʊ)

n., pl. -deaux (-doʊz, -ˈdoʊz)
1. a short poem of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes with the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
2. a monophonic song of the trouvères.
[1515–25; < Middle French: little circle; see rondel]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.rondeau - a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
rondo
classical, classical music, serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
2.rondeau - 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
rondel
poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
roundel - English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
rondelet - a shorter form of rondeau
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rondeau

[ˈrɒndəʊ] N (rondeaux (pl)) [ˈrɒndəʊz] (Literat) → rondó m
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rondeau

, rondel
n (Mus) → Rondeau nt; (Liter also) → Rondel nt
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Rondeaux et Virelais I represents the first new edition of the pieces in TuB since Richard Hoppin's landmark edition of the entire Turin manuscript fifty years ago in The Cypriot-French Repertory of Mc Manuscript Torino, Biblioteca nazionale, 1.11.9 (4 vols., Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 21 [Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1960-- Hoppin was the preeminent scholar of this repertoire following his 1952 dissertation on the motets from TuB ("The Motets of the Early 15th Century MS.
Le Codex de Chypre (Torino, Biblioteca Universitaria J.II.9), vol. 1, Rondeaux et Virelais I
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Taylor concedes from the start that massive collections of endless ballades, rondeaux, and so forth may seem to be rightly ignored since they are in many ways unremittingly banal and homogenous.
Jane H. M. Taylor. The Making of Poetry: Late-Medieval French Poetic Anthologies

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