different between rondeau vs roundelay

English

Etymology

From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n?do?/, /???n?do?/
• Homophone: rondo

Noun

rondeau (plural rondeaux or rondeaus)

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.
   • 1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, 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), […] .

   • 1991, Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs, 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.

2. A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
   • 1968, American Musicological Society, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Volumes 21-22, page 434,

     Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?

   • 1986, Richard L. Crocker, A History of Musical Style, page 125,

     The rondeaus show great variety. There are two very short, apparently primitive rondeaus a 3.

   • 2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, Volume 1, page 61,

     […] for example, we might be tempted to think that his rondeaux also explore atypical compositional procedures.

Translations

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From Old French rondel, diminutive of ront.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???.do/

Noun

rondeau m (plural rondeaux)

1. (poetry) rondeau
2. (music) rondo

Further reading

• “rondeau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

rondeau m (plural rondeaulx)

1. (poetry) rondeau

English

Alternative forms

• rondelay

Etymology

From Middle French rondelet, diminutive of Old French rondel (French: rondeau). Ending -lay either from lay (“ballad or sung poem”), or from virelay.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?nd??le?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??a?nd??le?/

Noun

roundelay (plural roundelays)

1. (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, Perigot and Willie's Roundelay published in The Shepheardes Calender, republished in 1907, William Stanley Braithwaite, ed., The Book of Elizabethan Verse.

     It fell upon a holly eve,

     Hey ho, hollidaye!

     When holly fathers wont to shrieve,

     Now gynneth this roundelay.

   • 1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Song - The Owl published in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical

     When merry milkmaids click the latch

     And rarely smells the new-mown hay,

     And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch

     Twice or thrice his roundelay,

     Twice or thrice his roundelay;

     Alone and warming his five wits,

     The white owl in the belfry sits.

   • 1871, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament published in Contemporary Review

     "Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry

     To dance without a catch, a roundelay

     To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp,

     And while he twangled little Dagonet stood

     Quiet as any water-sodden log

     Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;...

   • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, Chapter First, page 61.

     For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay;...

2. A dance in a circle.
3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.

See also

• rondeau
• roundel