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Rota and Rondellus in English Medieval Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1959

Frank L L. Harrison
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A Rondellus is a round; a rota is a canon at the unison. The rondellus is much the senior of the two, though in some of its moods it does not at all behave like a venerable relic of the Middle Ages. But that is what it is, and in its early life it had a respectable place in the music of the church. It is true that during some of that time one might have heard rounds sung in every ale-house, but if so nobody bothered to write them down, and the first printed collection is no earlier than 1609.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 86 , 1959 , pp. 98 - 107
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1959

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