Home › R › Röhrflöte (Ger.) (rare'-fla-teh)

Röhrflöte (Ger.) (rare'-fla-teh)

Reed-flute; a flute-stop in the organ.

Rôle (Fr.) (roll). The part in an opera or play assigned to any performer.

Roll, Wirbel (Ger.), Rollo (It.), Roulement (Fr.). The tremolo produced on the drum by the rapid alternation of blows with the drumsticks. On the kettle-drum the roll is produced by single alternating blows; on the side drum, by double alternating blows.

Romance. (I) A ballad. (2) An instrumental piece in lyric form, of romantic character; often used as the slow movement of a sonata, etc.

Romanesca (It.) (ro-ma-nes'-ca), Romanesque (Fr.) (ro-man-esk). Same as Galliard. Romantic. A vague term for that form of art in which the emotional content is considered as of more importance than the MAJOR KEY. I Th.

Tonic.

ROSIN form. The term "romantic" is often used as opposed to classic; but the application of "classic" is as vague as is that of "romantic." The element of time seems to be an essential of classicism, the work of a living author never being considered classic. The term romantic may be defined as roughly dividing the music written on harmonic principles from that written before the principles of harmonic combination and succession were discovered; but already the romantic school has been sub-divided into what may be called the classic-romantic and the new-romantic; but since every thing must in time become "o'd," this last school must, when its day is past, give place to a newer romanticism. "new دو Rondo, Rondeau (Fr.). One of the forms of composition characterized by the return of the first theme after the presentation of each new theme. The modern rondo partakes of the character of the sonata form, in that its second theme is repeated in the tonic key, having been first given in the dominant key. The following schemes exhibit at a glance the usual forms of the rondo :- II Th. I Th. || III Th.

Tonic Dom.