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  • noun Plural form of rondo.

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Examples

  • His tone is full but flexible, sustained but lyrical, and he manages to impart a certain wistfulness to even the jolliest rondos, such as the E flat one that Flanders and Swann memorably set to words.

    Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos 1-4 – review 2011

  • Each quartet has focused on a particular classical structure (he's already spotlighted scherzos, fugues, song forms and rondos), and this one, in four movements, explores some of the many aspects of the variation.

    In performance: Emerson Quartet 2010

  • Despite some clever touches, such as slow rondos and prominent flute parts, Pleyel's symphonies sound best when they resemble those of other composers, notably Haydn.

    'Contemporaries of Mozart Collection' offers contrasts to the master Mark J. Estren 2010

  • The violin is constantly played in the smallest village, and the young people dance old-fashioned cotillons or _danses rondos_.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • In the early part of the last century, Mlle. Broes, a native of Amsterdam, won an enviable position as a pianist, and composed a number of pieces for her instrument, including dances, rondos, and variations.

    Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

  • Nanette von Schaden, a native of Salzburg, composed two piano concertos, as well as numerous sonatas and rondos for piano.

    Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

  • Examples of rondos may be found in any volume of sonatas or sonatinas.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

  • In the rondos, then, all the movements of musical development revolve about one significant sentence or theme, the style of which therefore determines the prevailing character of the whole composition.

    Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898

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