Definitions for rondo
ˈrɒn doʊ, rɒnˈdoʊron·do

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rondo, rondeaunoun

   a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rondonoun

   A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

2. rondonoun

   A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.

3. rondonoun

   A dark-skinned, hybrid grape officially of the species Vitis vinifera

4. Etymology: From rondo, from rondeau.

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1. Rondo

   The rondo is a musical form that contains a principal theme (sometimes called the "refrain") which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called "episodes", but also occasionally referred to as "digressions" or "couplets". Some possible patterns include: ABACA, ABACAB, ABACBA, or ABACABA.The rondo form emerged in the Baroque period and became increasingly popular during the Classical period. The earliest examples of compositions employing rondo form are found within Italian opera arias and choruses of the first years of the 17th century. These examples use a multi-couplet rondo or chain rondo (ABACAD) known as the Italian rondo.Rondo form, also known in English by its French spelling rondeau, should not to be confused with the unrelated and similarly named forme fixe rondeau; a 14th- and 15th-century French poetic and chanson form. While the origins of rondo form come from Italian opera, the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who is sometimes referred to as the father of the rondo or rondeau form, and his contemporaries, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières and Louis Couperin popularized the rondo form in France in the 17th century. These composers were succeeded in the later Baroque period by French composers Jean-Marie Leclair, François Couperin, and most importantly Jean-Philippe Rameau who continued to be important exponents of music compositions utilizing rondo form. Lully was the first composer to utilize a two-couplet design to his rondo structure, a technique he did not consistently adopt but which was later adopted and standardized by Rameau whose construction of the rondo was codified by the 17th century music theorist Jean Du Breuil in what became known as the French rondeau.These French composers employed rondo form in a wide range of media, including opera, ballet, choral music, art songs, orchestral music, chamber music, and works for solo instrument. The French spread the popularity of the form internationally, and the rondo was soon adopted in the late 17th century and early 18th century by composers in other nations such as Henry Purcell in England and Johann Sebastian Bach in Germany. While J.S. Bach's rondos were written in the earlier French tradition of construction and were not particularly progressive, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a highly imaginative and unusually innovative composer in the rondo form; producing thirteen sophisticated and highly personal rondos which place him as an central figure in this form at the end of the Baroque period and early Classical period.By the beginning of the Classical period in 1750, the rondo form was already well established throughout Europe and the rondo form reached the height of its popularity in the late 18th century. During this period the rondo form was most frequently employed by composers as a single movement within a larger work; particularly concertos and serenades but also with less frequency in symphonies and chamber music. However, independent rondos were still written in this period, often as virtuoso pieces. Many European composers of this era used the rondo form, including the composers Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven who all produced a significant body of music employing rondo form. These three composers were also important exponents of the sonata rondo form; a musical form developed in the Classical period which blended the structures of the sonata form with the form of the rondo.In the 19th century composers in the Romantic period continued to use the form with some regularity. Some Romantic era composers to produce music utilizing rondo form include Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schuman, Richard Strauss, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Rondo form has continued to be used by some 20th-century and 21st-century composers; most often by those with a Neoclassical aesthetic or by those composers referencing classical music composition in some fashion. Some 20th century composers to utilize rondo form include Alban Berg, Béla Bartók, Duke Ellington, Alberto Ginastera, Paul Hindemith, and Sergei Prokofiev.

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1. rondo

   Rondo is a musical form characterized by a principal theme that alternates with one or more contrasting themes. It is often used in classical music for the final movement of a sonata, symphony or concerto. The structure is typically A-B-A-C-A, with A representing the main theme and B and C being the contrasting sections or episodes. Its main characteristic is the return to the main theme after each contrasting section.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rondonoun

   a composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains

2. Rondonoun

   see Rondeau, 1

3. Etymology: [It. rond, fr. F. rondeau. See Rondeau.]

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1. Rondo

   Rondo and its French part-equivalent rondeau are words that have been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form, but also to a character type that is distinct from the form.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rondo

   a form of musical composition which corresponds to the rondeau (q. v.) in poetry; consists of two or more (usually three) strains, the first being repeated at the end of each of the other two, but it admits of considerable variation.

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1. rondo

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RONDO

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rondo is ranked #70645 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Rondo surname appeared 277 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rondo.
   
   65.3% or 181 total occurrences were White.
   23.4% or 65 total occurrences were Black.
   7.5% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.6% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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1. • Classical Music

Anagrams for rondo »

1. donor

How to pronounce rondo?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rondo in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rondo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of rondo in a Sentence

1. Darius Garland:

   It was fun, the first couple plays were kinda like, ` Dang, that’s Rondo on the floor.' new face, but it was cool — Rondo’s a really good guy, he’s a great vet, he’s a leader on the floor, so it was fun playing with him.

2. Kevin Love:

   Rondo has a championship pedigree from Boston, so having him around will be huge, a lot of us are still on an emotional hangover from losing Ricky.

3. Marvin Roger Anderson:

   The federal government that played a part in taking [ Rondo ] away, ought to bring us back, and get us started again on the right path.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rondo
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rondo
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rondo
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=rondo
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Rondo
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html