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Musical form with a main and contrasting themes
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rondo
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Rondo was a citrus -flavored soft drink available in limited U.S. markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one which was "blended from fine essences", and "lightly carbonated". It is mostly famous for its slogan - "Rondo---The Thirst Crusher" - as well ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1797, "musical composition of one principal theme, which is repeated at least once," from Italian rondo , from French rondeau , rondel , from Old French rondel "little round" (see rondel ).
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Population (2000): 237 Housing Units (2000): 113 Land area (2000): 1.005771 sq. miles (2.604934 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.005771 sq. miles (2.604934 sq. km) FIPS code: 60590 Located within: Arkansas ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See Roundel .] [Written also rondo .] 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 ...
Usage examples of rondo.
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
Allegro and the great Larghetto with his most consummate artistry, and as the orchestra crashed into the Rondo finale his playing was surely that of the incredible Paganini.
I I in A-the grave and clear Andante, the quickening Menuetto, and finally the joyous Turkish Rondo, sending his spirits soaring after a tiring day.
They were sitting at a back table in La Rondo, a bistro and sandwich shop that was neither in Junktown or in the new city, but in the fringe area between them.
The parked cars began well before the corner of Rondo Vista and I had to pull over and continue on foot.