Personalities | Cipriano de Rore | Renaissance | Classical
(Che-pre-a’-no da Ro’-ra) c. 1515–65
Franco-Flemish composer
Rore spent much of his relatively short life in Italy, first in Ferrara and then in the brilliant musical circle around Willaert in Venice. Rore was cited by Monteverdi as a pioneer of the seconda pratica, and modern critics tend to emphasize the serious, intellectually rigorous side to his musical personality. But madrigals like the dawn song ‘Dalle belle contrade oriente’ (‘The Beautiful Country of the East’) show that he was also quite comfortable in the less self-consciously highbrow language of the madrigal.
Recommended Recording:
Mass Praeter rerum serium, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell)
Introduction | Renaissance | Classical
Personalities | Ludwig Senfl | Renaissance | Classical
AUTHORITATIVE
An extensive music information resource, bringing together the talents and expertise of a wide range of editors and musicologists, including Stanley Sadie, Charles Wilson, Paul Du Noyer, Tony Byworth, Bob Allen, Howard Mandel, Cliff Douse, William Schafer, John Wilson...
CURATED
Classical, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and more. Flame Tree has been making encyclopaedias and guides about music for over 20 years. Now Flame Tree Pro brings together a huge canon of carefully curated information on genres, styles, artists and instruments. It's a perfect tool for study, and entertaining too, a great companion to our music books.
David Bowie
Fantastic new, unofficial biography covers
his life, music, art and movies, with a
sweep of incredible photographs.
