Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country (with Johnny Cash)

RORE (de Rore) Cyprian (Cipriano) de (1516, probably Mechelen - August or September 1565, Parma) - Italian composer. Flemish by origin. Pupil A. Villarta. He was a singer, then Kapellmeister of the chapel of St. Mark in Venice (1542-46) and at the court in Ferrara (from 1547). In 1558-59 he lived in Flanders. In 1561-63 the parish. bandmaster in Parma. In 1563, after the death of Villart, he took over as chapel-master of the chapel in St. Mark.Already in the 40s. R. advanced as a master of madrigal (the main genre of his work). Madrigals R. (c. 125, many to the texts of F. Petrarch) reveal a desire for art, colorful music. language, to the transfer of landscape details of the text, to the rich figurative richness of the melody (these decorations from small notes R. called "chromatism"). His madrigals were popular in the 16th century and were published in collections in 1542, 1551, 1557, 1565, 1577, partly with Palestrina's madrigals (the publishers also included them in mixed collections of works by various authors). Masses, motets, “passions,” and other products belong to R. church. genres.