In music rondellus is the formalized interchange of parts or voices according to a scheme, often used in English conducti and frequently in English motets of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, but never used for an entire piece ( Caldwell 1992, p. 47). For example:

A B C  D E F
C A B  F D E
B C A  E F D

where the italicized letters represent music with text and the other letters are melismatic ( Caldwell 1992, p. 47).

See also

• Round (music)

Sources

• Caldwell, John (1992), The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to c.1715, Oxford and New York: Ocford University Press, ISBN  0-19-816129-8

Further reading

• Falck, Robert (1972). "Rondellus, Canon, and Related Types before 1300". Journal of the American Musicological Association 25, no. 1 (Spring): 38–57.
• Harrison, Frank Lloyd. (1959–60). "Rota and Rondellus in English Medieval Music". Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 86:98–107.
• Sanders, Ernest. H. (2001). "Rondellus". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  

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