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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rondo" Quotes from Famous Books

... preferable to the playing of the most gifted amateur, while the performance of the average amateur almost is juvenile compared with it. Moreover there are pieces of which the Liszt "Campanella," the Mendelssohn "Rondo Capriccioso" and the "Rosamunde" impromptu of Schubert, are examples, that, when played on the pianola by a musical person, sound just as well as if they came from under the fingers of the greatest living ...

— The Pianolist - A Guide for Pianola Players • Gustav Kobb

... pressed against the 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 will hear ...

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

Words linked to "Rondo" : rondeau, serious music