Rore / Cordes: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules - COMPACT DISCS

Rore / Cordes: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules Artist: Rore Cordes Label: Cpo Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 761203798926 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 09 20 Number of Discs: 1 Cipriano de Rore, a native of Ronse, embodies with his music the multifacetedness and cosmopolitan influence of the Franco Flemish epoch. His significance in music history can hardly be overestimated, and his extraordinary position between the prima practica and seconda

Title: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules
Artist: Rore / Cordes
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203798926
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-09-20
Number of Discs: 1

Cipriano de Rore, a native of Ronse, embodies with his music the multifacetedness and cosmopolitan influence of the Franco-Flemish epoch. His significance in music history can hardly be overestimated, and his extraordinary position between the prima practica and seconda practica makes him simultaneously a guardian of the tradition and a trailblazer of the "new music." The Mass "Vivat felix Hercules secundus" from the genre of Masses for secular princes was probably composed by de Rore shortly after his arrival in Ferrara and is to be understood as a tribute to his employer, Ercole II d'Este, whose name de Rore honored in a remarkable manner. In each part of the Mass the tenor voice sings the text "Vivat felix Hercules secundus, dux Ferrariae quartus" (Long live the happy Ercole II, the fourth Duke of Ferrara). In addition to the text of the Ordinary, then, a second, worldly level is integrated into the Mass composition, which at the same time works toward the goal of lending the secular ruler - as a mediating instance between the sacred and secular spheres - a quasi-divine status. Along with the Mass, motets by de Rore are also heard here: works in which the composer assimilates techniques such as the canon, cantus firmus, and soggetto ostinato.

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