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motet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
Examples of motet
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The structure of this motet was strongly influenced by the structure of the dome.
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A motet for women's voices to the text was among the last works of Hector Berlioz.
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Paul Mealor's motet Ubi Caritas et Amor got rather lost in the abbey's vast spaces.
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Mouton composed a motet, Christus vincit, for the election of Leo X as pope in 1513.
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The predominant forms of church music during the period were the mass and the motet.
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Mixed forms such as the motet-chanson and the secular motet also appeared.
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Contains a recording of O gloriosa Domina, a motet by Johannes Ghiselin.
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Each motet is strikingly individual, exploring a unique structural idea.
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Contains the five-voice motet Virgo prudentissima, published in 1534.
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- An unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
- In Classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.
- From the French term "mot" (word). The medieval motet is a polyphonic genre which originated in the thirteenth century in which the upper voice or voices are texted (usually syllabically) and the bottom voice, the tenor, is untexted. ...
- Motet generally means a vocal piece with sacred text, musically composed in the style of the period. During the 13th-15th centuries, motets were sacred, unaccompanied choral works, often based on a preexisting melody and text. ...
- (1) To c1400, a piece with one or more voices, often with different but related sacred or secular texts, singing over a fragment of chant in longer note-values (2) after 1400, a polyphonic setting of a short sacred text.
- A (usually) unaccompanied choral composition based on a Latin text.
- A polyphonic vocal style of composition. The motet was popular in the Middle Ages, when it consisted of a tenor foundation upon which other tunes were added. ...
- This is a most important form of polyphonic music between 1220 and 1750.
- Polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages but sacred or devotional thereafter.
