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the cons tell the couples, as they stand in line, ations. Apis, the dance together in pairs. The first man 445 roman a, nota rondeau cant letters, and their use is credited roman a, and It. nota (no'-ta ro'-ma-na) Lat. to Roman us, a Greek hymn writer, A neume. See also neume. but their meaning now is doubtful, romance romanza From roman, a name given to long Romance.(ro-man'-tsa) It. n. Romanze (Ger.). tales, ballads in the Provencial lan romanza senza parole (ro-man'-tsa guage, sung by the troubadours and sen'-tsa pa-ro'-le) It. minstrels, and since they sang of Song without words, chivalry and love the name later was roman zero (ro-man-tsa'-ro) It. n. applied to love ditties and songs of A cycle or suite of piano pieces of a adventure. It is now used of both romantic character. vocal and instrumental music of a delicate and romantic character. There romanzesco Romantic. (ro-man-tsas'-ko) See also romantic,It. adj. is no fixed form for romances. Equivrombando alent to romanza (It.), Romanze Droning; (rom-ban'-do) It. part. humming; buzzing, (Ger.), romaunt (Old Eng.), romance (Fr.). rombare To drone; (rom-ba'-re) hum; buzz. It. v. romance sans paroles (ro-mafis safi Rome, prix de (pre du rom) Fr. pa-rol') Fr. 1. A prize offered by the French Song without words, government to the pupils of the Paris romanesca (ro-ma-nes'-ka) It. n. Conservatory at their annual com pet i rom anes que (ro-ma-nesk') Fr. n. tion. It consists of an allowance suf- A popular Italian dance of the Sixteenth Century resembling the gal- Rome. ficientAnother to afford four name years' is the study in grand liard. It originated in Rome, hence the name romanesca. 2. A prize of the same description romantic Eng. n. awarded every other year by the prix. rom antique (ro-man-tek) Fr. adj. Bru el's Conservatory. _ Its meaning in reference to music is rather arbitrary and is directly opromischer Gesang (ra'-mish-er gezang') Ger. posed to that of the cla ic, signifying Roman song; the Greg or i an plain something uncommon or unusual. chant of the Catholic Church, Before music can be properly termed roncon cla ic it must have stood the test of Drone (ron'-kon) of a bagpipe.Spa. n. years and have received the approval ronda (ron'-da) It. n. of succeeding generations. Thus a A round: a song made up of a cerne iT,comP°ser which has become 's imitation music of cla ic tain melody sung by each voice begin known as ning at a given interval from the lead- Porrows the modifying term and is ing voice and repeated until the last itself known as such. Any deviation voice has completed the melody. from the beaten path in order to disronde (rofid) Fr. n. play genius and ingenuity is, on the 1. A ronda or round. other hand, termed romantic. Wag- 2. A semibreve, a whole note. ner was called Romanticist by his contemporaries, but has succe fully ronde A dotted pointee whole note.pwafi-ta') Fr. (rofid stood the test of time and is now rondeau (rofl-do) Fr. n. regarded as a Cla icist. The term A vocal or instrumental compos i romance was first used in reference to tion in which the principal theme is IT ^ntten in the Romance tongues often repeated; a round, catch, rondo. The setting to a rondeau, a poem in wnichu is tv • grown t0 refer to a tale the product of imagination, three parts, the first having five lines, nence, its use in reference to original the second three and the third five, RomMiuabuchstaben and having only two rhymes, the first bookh'-shta-ben) (ro - ma'- noos - word or portion of the first line being Ger. n. repeated at the end of the second and «.,,.!,as S,ng,e such Greek m c i and abbreviated or Latin letters third parts. The rondeau usually has words such as ten., sep., moll., used over the eight syllables to a line. The rondeaux neumes which were the signs or char of Adam de la Hale, a composer of acters used to indicate a tone or the Thirteenth Century, were merely pnrase in early medieval music. They three-part songs, either short or fairly ere "Wed htterae significatse, sign if i long, which were sung again and again till the words were all said. 465 446 rondeaux rosin rondeaux (ron-do) Fr. pi. n. ronz a men to (ron-tsa-men'-to) It. n. Rounds; catches; rondos. See also Buzzing; humming, rondeau, root ron dell us rondel The fundamental tone of a chord; An old form of imitation in which a the note on which a chord is built certain melody was sung by all the It is the lowest note of the chord in voices in turn. It differed from the its first or natural position but appears canon or round, however, in that all above or between the other notes if the parts began at once, the additional the chord is inverted. Thus the chords voices each having a melody of its C E G, E G C and G C E are all own which accompanied the given formed on the root C. See also gen melody and exchanged with it till all erator, though in modern usage they had been sung by each part. See also are not generally synonymous. roundel, rosa The (ro'-za) It. n. ornamentation around the