rondeau

1 a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata [syn: rondo]

2 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: rondel] [also: rondeaux (pl)]

English

Noun

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.
2. A monophonic song with a 2-part refrain.

Rondeau may mean:

• Rondeau (poetry), a form of French poetry
• Rondo, a musical form from the 18th century to the present, also spelt 'rondeau'
• Rondeau (music), a medieval and early Renaissance musical form distinct from the 18th century rondo
• Jane Rondeau, the wife of Claudius Rondeau, an English minister in St Petersburg in 1720-1739. Her "Lettres (sic) of a Lady who resided some years in Russia", are "one of the best sources" on Anna of Russia
• Jean Rondeau, French racer and constructor who won the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans on his own car
• José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra, a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century
• Noah John Rondeau, an Adirondack hermit
• Jim Rondeau, a politician in Manitoba, Canada
• Rondeau Provincial Park, in southwestern Ontario

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