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What is a rondeau?

What is a rondeau? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (poetry) 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.
  2. A monophonic song with a 2-part refrain.
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Villon has varied the rondeau so as to use for a refrain a single syllable.
The rondeau is not in Lescurel systematised into any regular form.
The rondeau given below, by Adam de la Halle, shows its typical layout as a single-stanza poem of four couplets.
Children are introduced to early musical instruments and to music as diverse as a Huron folk tale, an Acadian turlutte, a rondeau heard in the court of Louis XIV and a motet composed by a nun from the city of Québec.
The menuetto second movement was a graceful dance followed by a concluding rollicking rondeau.
This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.

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