Editing Round (music) (section)

==History==
[[File:Tod und Schlaf Haydn four voice round.png|thumb|upright=1.4|"Tod und Schlaf", a four-voice round by [[Joseph Haydn]]{{sfn||Norden|1970|p=195}} {{audio|Tod und Schlaf Haydn four voice round.mid|Play}}]]
The term "round" first appears in English in the early 16th century, though the form was found much earlier. In medieval England, they were called {{lang|la|rota}} or {{lang|la|[[rondellus]]}}. Later, an alternative term was "roundel" (e.g., David Melvill's manuscript ''Ane Buik off Roundells'', Aberdeen, 1612). Special types of rounds are the "catch" (a comic English form found from about 1580 to 1800), and a specialized use of the word "canon", in 17th- and 18th-century England designating rounds with religious texts.{{sfn|Johnson|2001}} The oldest surviving round in English is "[[Sumer is icumen in]]"{{sfn|Hoffman|1997|p=40}} {{audio|Sumer is icumen in (round).mid|Play}}, which is for four voices, plus two bass voices singing a [[Ostinato|ground]] (that is, a never-changing repeating part), also in canon. However, the earliest known rounds are two works with Latin texts found in the eleventh [[Serial (literature)|fascicle]] of the [[Notre-Dame school|Notre Dame]] manuscript [[Pluteo 29.1]]. They are "{{lang|la|Leto leta concio|italic=no}}"<ref>{{YouTube|title=Leto Leta Concio: Canon – Manuscrit de Florence|id=m8w2_4bCwf8}}</ref> (a two-voice round) and "{{lang|la|O quanto consilio|italic=no}}" (a four-voice round). The former dates from before 1180 and may be of German origin.{{sfn|Falck|1972|pp=43–45, 57}} The first published rounds in English were printed by [[Thomas Ravenscroft]] in 1609... "Three Blind Mice" appears in this collection, although in a somewhat different form from today's children's round:{{audio|Three Blind Mice.ogg|Play}}
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|{{poemquote|text=Three Blinde Mice,
three Blinde Mice,
Dame Iulian,
Dame Iulian,
The Miller and his merry olde Wife,
shee scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife.}}
|[[File:Three Blinde Mice three voice round Deuteromelia 13 (1609).png|upright=1.4|thumb| "Three Blinde Mice" (1609)<ref>[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/three_blinde.html "Three Blind Mice"], ''Ravenscroft Songbook''</ref> {{audio|Three Blinde Mice three voice round Deuteromelia 13 (1609).mid|Play}}]]
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