motet

[ UK /mɒtˈɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
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  • Among his works, besides piano pieces and songs, are: "A May Song," for women's chorus and piano; six pieces for violin and piano; "Harold," a ballad for male chorus, barytone solo, and orchestra; "Were It Not For Love," composed for male chorus; several sets of male choruses; a motet for mixed chorus a cappella; a berceuse for string orchestra, an introduction and rondo for violin and orchestra; and a "Marche Nuptiale," for grand orchestra. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • Conducted by Harry Christophers, the choir will perform motets, anthems and religious songs by the 17th century English composers Robert Ramsey and Henry Purcell.
  • The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
  • This recording is the first of two devoted to Wood, so it includes known and virtually unknown anthems and motets.
  • Latin motets alongside modern crowd-pullers - which brings us back to hymn-singing, where we began.
  • The psalm settings range from the rather simple tricinia of the 1588 collection where they alternate with similar settings by his son Rudolph to the great six-part psalm-motets such as Ich ruff zu dir, using paraphrased and cantus-firmus versions of the borrowed melodies, in the French–German volume of 1590. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Since the 17th Century, the original 'function and value' in motet was substituted gradually by numerous newly rising secular genres, as a result, it went down as an individual type.
  • In Mary's reign, England was exposed to the potent artistry of Flemish and Spanish music, while the seminal influence of Italy was always present in the shape of Palestrina's motets and the works of the Florentine madrigalists.
  • It shares with the late motets a solo introduction, and like most ars nova motets its periodic rhythmic structure is clearly marked by hocket passages. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Countless treasures await us, including lectures by Dr. William Mahrt and Fr. Frank Phillips, an organ recital by Brother Jonathan Ryan of St. John Cantius, a new motet by Chicago's own Kevin Allen, not to mention fellowship with old friends and new. CMAA Summer Programs Filling Up
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