composer
Cipriano De Rore was a Flemish composer who was born in 1515/6 in Ronse, a small town between Brussels and Courtrai (Belgium, in the 16th century The Netherlands). He moved ...
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
The cry of the peacocks : for mixed choir, 2005 / poem by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK20
composition
The Second Book of Madrigals : for 4 voices / Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni da Palestrina, published by Antonio Gardano; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Other authors:
Gardano, Antonio
(curator)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluiggi da
(composer)
Wagemakers, Cees
(editor)
Contains:
Un’ altra volta la germania strida (4’)
G.P. da Palestrina: Canzon (c. 35’)
Chi non sa com’ amor (1’45”)
Schieta arbuscel (3’45”)
Beato me direi (2’45”)
O sonno (3’30”)
Fontana di dolore (3’)
Datemi pace (3’15”)
Mentre la prima mia (2’45”)
Mia benigna fortuna (3’45”)
Description:
The madrigals in this book by De Rore were published after his death. Some of them are rather ‘experimental’, e.g. in O sonno, showing sequences that remind to Lassus’ Prophetiæ Sybillarum. The title (O Sleep) is deceiving: one cannot fall asleep while singing this madrigal; it’s too difficult, although mostly homophonic. Remarkable in this book is the combination of two composers that are both great enough to be published on their own account: De Rore and Palestrina. Yet there were other occasions of De Rore and Palestrina featuring in one book: In the Choirbook Ms. 46 in the Bavarian State Library there is the Missa Benedicta es by da Palestrina (also available at Donemus) and the Missa Praeter rerum seriem by De Rore.
Cees Wagemakers, 2018