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Short choral work
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motet
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Word definitions for motet in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motet \Mo*tet"\, n. [F., a dim. of mot word; cf. It. mottetto, dim. of motto word, device. See Mot , Motto .] (Mus.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
Usage examples of motet.
Ponceau des hommes et des femmes sauvages qui se combattaient et faisaient plusieurs contenances en chantant de petits motets et des bergerettes.
He was the author also of some motets, and Luca Marenzio, who brought the madrigal style to its most beautiful development and whose influence molded the methods of the English glee and madrigal writers, is believed to have been his pupil for a short time.
The texts of the motets were generally in prose, and the early polyphonists saw no obvious reason for imposing upon this essentially rectilinear material a circular musical form.
While Tintoretto and Veronese moved toward openness and the asymmetrical, the two Gabrielis moved, in their motets and their instrumental music, toward harmony, toward regular scansion and the closed form.
Matthew Passion, the John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat, the Motets, and 25 of the Church Cantatas have been printed with English words.
Saint and some of his friends were brain-playing ancient flute motets on sheets of imipolex-with hints of heavy metal.
Above all they were the copyists of the choirmasters and made endless parts of the motets of Morales and Vittoria.
We go to the eleven o'clock solemn High Mass, with plain-song propers sung by the Ritual Choir (that's Darcy Dwyer's lot) and a missa brevis and motet sung by the Gallery Choir, which is like angels, if angels can sing, which I suppose they do.