Rondeau vs Rondelet - What's the difference?
rondeau | rondelet |
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.
* 1914 , Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder ,
* 1991 , Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs ,
A monophonic song with a 2-part refrain.
* 1968 , , Volumes 21-22,
* 1986 , Richard L. Crocker, A History of Musical Style ,
* 2009 , Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music , Volume 1,
As nouns the difference between rondeau and rondelet
is that rondeau is 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 while rondelet is a metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables.rondeau
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(en-noun)page 198,
- Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), .
page 50,
- First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre.
page 434,
- Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?
page 125,
- The rondeaus' show great variety. There are two very short, apparently primitive '''rondeaus ''a 3 .
page 61,
- for example, we might be tempted to think that his rondeaux also explore atypical compositional procedures.