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noun

Rondo n.

(Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. "The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction."

(Poetry) See Rondeau, 1.

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Etymology of 'Rondo'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rondo" Quotes from Famous Books

... railings, their arms extended toward the ocean, in the pitiable attitude of Punch when knocked down by the policeman." Some days later, during a performance of La Fille du Regiment at Brighton, in the last act, while the orchestra was playing the prelude to the final rondo, "Jenny Lind said to me in a whisper, 'Listen well to this song, Roger, for these are the last notes of mine that you ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various

... of it," which means a masked ball at the theatre. And the great central chandelier does not begin to descend into the body of the house, to have its lights flapped out by the handkerchiefs of the revellers amid a last frantic rondo, till some four hours after midnight. But in provincial Ravenna, a Pope's city under the rule of a Cardinal Legate, there is—or was in the days when the Pope held sway there— no Veglione. Its place was supplied, as far as "the society" ...

— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Words linked to "Rondo" : serious music, rondeau, classical