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  2. Rondo - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Franz Rigler's "Three Rondos" (1790) First page of the manuscript for Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello. The rondo is a musical form that contains a principal theme (sometimes called the "refrain") which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called "episodes", but also occasionally referred to as "digressions" or ...

  3. Rondeau (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    A rondeau (French:; plural: rondeaux) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry, as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.

  4. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Some forms and compositional techniques occasionally also give name to the compositions based on them, such as rondo or canon. This does not occur in other cases such as strophic, binary, ternary or arch forms. A notable source of confusion is the term 'sonata': as a genre, it denotes a multi-movement composition for one or more solo ...

  5. Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    Mozart himself titled the rondo "Alla turca". [5] It imitates the sound of Turkish Janissary bands, the music of which was much in vogue at that time. [6]Section A: This section, in A minor, consists of a rising sixteenth-note melody followed by a falling eighth note melody over a staccato eighth-note accompaniment.

  6. Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    There is also a modified representation of the melody from the second movement, so it connects all three movements together. The movement's sonata rondo form includes a brief coda. The three rondo episodes are in E ♭ major, A ♭ major, and C major. The common use of sforzando creates a forceful effect. Third movement

  7. Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D major (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    The Rondo in D is, formally, not a rondo at all but a set of variations. [1] It is marked Allegretto grazioso and contains two tempo changes, Adagio and Allegro respectively, before returning to the initial tempo soon before the end. The total duration is about 10 minutes, which is much longer than the movement it replaced, which generally ...

  8. Sonata rondo form - Wikipedia

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    Sonata rondo form combines features of the five-part rondo and sonata form. [2] The simplest kind of sonata rondo form is a sonata form that repeats the opening material in the tonic at the end of the exposition and recapitulation sections. [A B' A] exp [C"] dev [A B A] recap

  9. Rondo (game) - Wikipedia

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    A rondo is a type of game, similar to keep away, that is used as a training drill in association football (soccer). In a rondo, one group of players is tasked with keeping possession of the ball while completing a series of passes , while a smaller group of players (sometimes a single player) tries to take possession.