单词 | rondeau |
释义 | rondeaun. 1. a. A short poem of medieval French origin, normally consisting of thirteen octosyllabic lines, in which only two rhymes are employed throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain; the verse form in which this is written. See also roundo n.2The rondeau was revived in English poetry by Swinburne and others in the late 19th cent. (cf. roundel n. 11). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > rondeau rondela1393 roundela1393 rondeau1525 roundo1686 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. 71 A boke..conteyninge all the songes, baladdes, rundeaux [Fr. rondeaux], and vyrelayes, which the gentyll duke had made in his tyme. 1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles Table of Contents sig. d2v The Angelic Hymn. Rondeau. 1694 P. A. Motteux in tr. F. Rabelais Wks. Pref. p. cxij The Rondeau which Raminagrobis gives to Panurge upon his irresolution as to his marriage,..is taken out of Cretin. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 132 Their most diversified Conversations are a sort of Rondeaus that end either in Artificial Slanders, or gross Flattery. 1710 A. Pope Corr. 24 June (1956) I. 90 This sort of writing calld the Rondeau is what I never knew practis'd in our Nation. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 584 They dealt much in..the rondeau, a very popular species of metre long afterwards. 1868 C. M. Yonge Cameos xci, in Monthly Packet Nov. 431 She..used to sit up half the night writing ballads and rondeaux. 1889 A. Lang Lett. on Lit. (ed. 2) ii. 25 In his first volume Mr. Bridges offered a few rondeaux and triolets. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 102 Lloyd Mallam, the poet,..was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence. 1966 B. Howes in H. Nemerov Poets on Poetry vi. 60 The following poem of mine, written in an old French form, the rondeau, is about time. 2001 L. Buell in R. Faggen Cambr. Compan. Robert Frost v. 111 A faith in the possibilities of highly formal verse structures like the rondeau. b. In extended use: a repeated sequence of events, objects, etc.; a refrain. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > refrain refraid?a1439 repeat?1497 refrain1530 rearfreight?1567 tag1717 rondeau1787 ephymnium1910 1787 Bp. G. Horne in Olla Podrida 2 June 68 Every evening will pass in this rondeau of delights. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxv. 80 This is the rondeau of your argument. 1935 Manch. Guardian 24 June 11/7 So goes on the rondeau of delights for the sightseer. 1989 D. McDuff tr. B. Carpelan Axel (1998) ii. 321 I sat on a bench and looked at the sea and thought of Janne swaying across the Atlantic in a rondeau of the waves. 1996 V. Arwas Art of Glass 76 (caption) Amethyst tinted liqueur flask and stopper, engraved with an intricate rondeau of nude women dancing. 2. Music. = rondo n. 1.The French rondeau gained considerable popularity in the 17th and early 18th centuries. From the mid 18th cent. the genre was developed elsewhere on the continent and in Britain, usually under the Italian name rondo. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > rondo rondeau1724 rondo1797 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. 64 Rondeau, all Songs or Tunes which end with the First Part or Strain, are called by this Name, let them be Minuets, Sarabands, Gavots, Jigs, [etc.]. 1726 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) DC, an Abbreviation of da capo [in Musick Books] are Words commonly met with at the End of Rondeaus, or such Airs or Tunes as end with the first Part. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 235 Hetty..began a Rondeau in the Overture to Sacchini's new Opera. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 142/1 Rondeau (Fr.) or Rondo (It.), a kind of air consisting of two or more strains, in which, after finishing the second strain, the first is repeated, and again after the third, etc., always returning to and concluding with the first. 1882 Musical World 14 Jan. 22/1 In Handel's first opera, Almira, there is a dance which he calls a rondeau, and this consists of a principal subject, and two trios or alternatives. 1919 Musical Q. 5 84 Our composer's sonatas are divided into two movements: an initial Allegro, followed by a Minuet or Rondeau. 1965 J. Gillespie Five Cent. Keyboard Music (1972) ii. vi. 97 Rameau..revels in chromatic dissonance and reveals his predilection for the highly developed rondeau spiced with unusual modulations. 1999 R. W. Gutman Mozart (2000) xviii. 352 Mozart prepares the closing Rondeau as a savory potpourri of quotations from favorite tunes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1525 |
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