Found 2 items, similar to rondeau.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: rondeau 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)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Rondeau 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]