Rondeau (song)
A rondeau ( French rond "round") is a round song in the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance .
In poetry and music of the 14th and 15th centuries, a rondeau is an artfully rhymed refrain song that, according to the rules of the rhetoriqueurs, consists of two parts A and B, which are repeated in a characteristic (rondo-like) manner:
A1 - B1 - A2 - A1 - A3 - B2 - A1 - B1.
A rondeau quatrain is a rondeau whose two parts each consist of two verses. It has the rhyme scheme: ABBA.
In a Rondeau cinquain , the A section consists of 3 verses, the B section of 2 verses. The rhyme scheme is here: AABBA.
A rondeau layé is a modified rondeau cinquain in which a five-syllable verse is inserted after the 2nd and 4th verse, resulting in the following rhyme scheme: AA- (A) -BB- (B) -A.
A musical form with a recurring refrain that has appeared in clavecin , lute, guitar, opera and ballet music since the 17th century is also called rondeau. However, it is more related to the Italian rondo than to the medieval rondeau and can be found in suites in combination with the minuet ( e.g. as Menuet en Rondeau by François Campion, Jan Antonín Losy or anonymous masters), but (around 1700) also combined with the Gavotte ( Gavotte en Rondeau ) or the Sarabande .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Adalbert Quadt : Guitar music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1-4. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970 ff .; 2nd edition ibid 1975-1984, Volume 1, p. 56., and Volume 3, pp. 10, 14, 31 f. ( Rondeau or Rondeau tendrement ), 38 and 42.
- ^ Adalbert Quadt: Guitar music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1-4. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970 ff., Volume 2: based on tablatures for Colascione, Mandora and Angelica, 3rd edition ibid. 1972, pp. 23-25.