DESCRIPTION:
A video essay looking into some of the lesser known aspects of the well known classical form, the Rondo.
In this video I look into what can be considered a Rondo and how this musical form relates to other artistic fields.

A special thanks as always to musopen.org and imslp.org for offering free public domain classical sheet music and recordings online.

To whom it may concern below are the links to the recordings used in this video.

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, 3rd Movement
https://musopen.org/music/1056/ludwig-van-beethoven/violin-concerto-in-d-op-61/
Mozart: Sonata No. 11 K. 331, 3rd Movement
https://musopen.org/music/1351/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/piano-sonata-no-11-k-331/
Mozart: Rondo in A minor K. 511
https://musopen.org/music/114/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/rondo-in-am-k-511/
François Couperin: La Favorite
https://musopen.org/music/840/francois-couperin/la-favorite-from-3rd-ordre-first-book-of-harpsichord-pieces/


READ THE FOLLOWING ONLY AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO:
I felt it necessary to mention that there are some who argue that the medieval/renaissance poetic form of Rondeau has little or nothing to do with the musical form Rondo.
One such argument comes from Arnold Schönberg’s Essay: Style and Idea and goes as such.
„If the musical rondo form were really supposed to be modeled on the poetic form, it could only be done so very superficially"
I, the maker of this video strongly disagree with this. I feel most art forms are related, and even if the musical form Rondo is not a strict translation of the patterns used in the poetic form Rondeau, something drove baroque composers to adopt the same exact term, probably because the forms are…..surprise!…….similar. I think this video makes a pretty good case as to why.