Roundelayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• rondelay

語源

From Middle French rondelet, diminutive of Old French rondel (French: rondeau). Ending -lay either from lay (“ballad または sung poem”), or from virelay.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊndɪˌleɪ/

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊndəˌleɪ/

名詞

roundelay (複数形 roundelays)

1. (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     It fell upon a holly eve,
     Hey ho, hollidaye!
     When holly fathers wont to shrieve,
     Now gynneth this roundelay.

   • 1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, Song - The Owl:

     When merry milkmaids click the latch
     And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
     And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
     Twice or thrice his roundelay,
     Twice or thrice his roundelay;
     Alone and warming his five wits,
     The white owl in the belfry sits.

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 911789798:

     "Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry
     To dance without a catch, a roundelay
     To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp,
     And while he twangled little Dagonet stood
     Quiet as any water-sodden log
     

     Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook; […]

   • 1903, Howard Pyle, “Chapter First”, in The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, page 61:

     For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay; […]