Rondo : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Rondo	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Rondo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rondo n a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata Synonym(s): rondo, rondeau
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rondo \Ron"do\, n. [It. rond[95], fr. F. rondeau. See {Rondeau}.] 1. (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. [bd]The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction.[b8] --Grove. 2. (Poetry) See {Rondeau}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See {Roundel}.] [Written also {rondo}.] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc. Brit. 2. (Mus.) See {Rondo}, 1.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Rondo, AR (town, FIPS 60590) Location: 34.65744 N, 90.82022 W Population (1990): 283 (106 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)