Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rondeau

2 senses of rondeau

Sense 1
rondo, rondeau -- (a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata)
       => classical music, classical, serious music -- (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)

Sense 2
rondeau, rondel -- (a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas)
       => poem, verse form -- (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)