Motet in a sentence

This style of motet was sometimes called the Venetian motet to distinguish it from the Netherlands or Flemish motet written elsewhere.

Also, there will be a selection of Catalan carols and motets; Joan Brudieu’s Seven Joys of Mary; Tomas Luis de Victoria’s mass and motet for Christmas morning – O Magnum Mysterium; and Guerrero’s motet for six voices Pastores Loquebantur.

Nevertheless, the themes of courtly love often found in the medieval secular motet were banished from the Renaissance motet.

Nine albums later and tours that have brought them to Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Bumpershoot and Red Rocks Amphitheater, The Motet feels at home in Vail with a huge local following.

The chorale finale was very colourful and led into a motet, again by Heinrich Schütz.

The next time I visited The Forty Part Motet was on a cold Sunday in November.

The same composer’s Geistliches Lied, Bruckner’s motet Locus Iste and Mendelssohn’s anthem Hear My Prayer (which includes the famous melody O For the Wings of a Dove) complete the evening’s listening.

The tournament has raised over $700,000 for multiple sclerosis research in ten years, and is upping the ante this year by bringing in comedian Josh Blue and funk band the Motet for performances.

Additionally, he left an endowment for the performance of his late motet, Pater noster, at all general processions in the town when they passed in front of his house, stopping to place a wafer on the marketplace altar to the Holy Virgin.

A few motets, especially in the 1591 set, abandon traditional motet style and resort to vivid word painting which reflects the growing popularity of the madrigal (Haec dies, 1591).

His Latin motet Silete Venti, for soprano solo, shows the use of this form in church music.

In 1505 Giovanni Alvise, a Venetian wind player, offered Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua a motet to be played on eight recorders, however the work has not survived.

Motet refers to his church music without orchestra accompaniment, but instruments playing colla parte with the voices.

Reese, p. 240. Parody technique was to become the most usual means of mass composition for the remainder of the 16th century, although the mass gradually fell out of favor as the motet grew in esteem.

Richard Hillert wrote a Motet for the Day of Pentecost for choir, vibraphone, and prepared electronic tape in 1969.

The clausulae, thus practised, became the motet when troped with non-liturgical words, and were further developed into a form of great elaboration, sophistication and subtlety in the fourteenth century, the period of Ars nova.

The motet probably arose from clausula sections, usually strophic interludes, in a longer sequence of organum, to which upper voices were added.

The motet Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren, BWV 231 is an arrangement of a movement from Bach's Cantata 28, and the authenticity of the arrangement is not certain.

The motet took a definite rhythm from the words of the verse, and as such appeared as a brief rhythmic interlude in the middle of the longer, more chantlike organum.

This is the sort of composition that is most familiarly designated by the term "motet", and the Renaissance period marked the flowering of the form.