Rondeau

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rondeau
       n 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)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "rondeau":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
     balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canon, canso, catch, chanson,
     clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram,
     epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, fugato, fugue,
     georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal,
     monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral,
     pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme,
     rondel, rondelet, rondino, rondo, rondoletto, round, roundel,
     roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence,
     tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troll, troubadour poem,
     verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay