Talk:Rondeau (poetry)
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[edit] What is this article talking about?
I don't know the source of this article, but to my knowledge the rondeau is a french medieval seculiar court song going AB aA ab AB. It is one of the three formes fixes flourishing in the 14th century, uses two rhymes and results in at least 8 verses. The sections represented by caps are the refrain, means those verses are repeated identically. Refrains appear in the contemporary artworks also outside of rondeaus and may have a status of proverbs or sayings. Rondeaus are mostly set to music. Here is an example by Solage i'm just working on:
A - fumeux fume par fumee
B - fumeuse speculacion
a - qu'antre fummet sa pensee
A - fumeux fume par fumee
a - quar fumer molt li agree
b - tant qu'il ait son entencion
A - fumeux fume par fumee
B - fumeuse speculation
So, what this article talks about is definitely not the Rondeau (poetry) i know. My sources are "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", "Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" and manuscripts filled with french rondeaus from the 14th century by Machaut, Solage, Cordier, etc. -- LeV Jul. 07
