Romanee Mitre & Maria Diaz RONDEAU BY Romanee Mitre & Maria Diaz

HISTORY Originated in France between the late 13th and 15th century. became one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music. The rondeau (French; plural form rondeaux) was a Medieval and early Renaissance musical form, based on the contemporary popular poetic rondeau form The word Rondeau means “small round” from the repetition of the opening 2 lines

what it is It is a rhythm that follows a pattern like this: (1) A A B B A (2) A A B with refrain: C (3) A A B B A with concluding refrain C. An example is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar “We Wear the Mask” We wear the mask that grins and lies,(A) It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— (A) This debt we pay to human guile; (B) With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, (B) And mouth with myriad subtleties. (A) Why should the world be over-wise, (A) In counting all our tears and sighs? (A Nay, let them only see us, while (B) We wear the mask. (C) We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries (A) To thee from tortured souls arise. (A) We sing, but oh the clay is vile (B) Beneath our feet, and long the mile; (B) But let the world dream otherwise, (A) We wear the mask! (C)

HOW TO DO IT begin with something like this: Stanza 1: A with refrain The repeating element may be a rhyme, a sound, an entire line, or a variation on that line.

Romeo & Juliet Destiny took the desire A game of love’s fire Which took the innocents' heart Just to take them apart And make justice a lier A tale of love that grew higher But the extreme love backfire Making their young souls depart So to save such sweet love, they conspire On an attempt she died, asking for a forever aspire To wake on her lover’s arms Instead life took its part But Shakespeare's tragedy their life’s required