music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of...
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Motet is an American funk, soul and jazz influenced group based in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1998 by drummer and bandleader Dave Watts, The Motet is...
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The motet-chanson was a specialized musical form of the Renaissance, developed in Milan during the 1470s and 1480s, which combined aspects of the contemporary...
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The petit motet ("little motet") was a genre of domestic sacred chamber music popular in France during the baroque era. It was the sacred counterpart of...
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The grand motet (plural grands motets) was a genre of motet cultivated at the height of the French baroque, although the term dates from later French...
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involved setting a chorale melody and text as a motet. Stylistically chorale motets were similar at first to motets composed in Catholic countries, and made...
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Ave Maria ... virgo serena (category Motets)
"Ave Maria ... virgo serena" is a motet composed by Josquin des Prez. It is regarded as Josquin's most famous motet and one of the most famous pieces...
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It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving...
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The Rostock Motet Choir (German: Rostocker Motettenchor) was founded in 1964 by Hartwig Eschenburg and gave concerts from the early days in famous churches...
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Spem in alium (redirect from Forty-Part Motet)
Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each...
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Johann Sebastian Bach's vocal music includes cantatas, motets, masses, Magnificats, Passions, oratorios, four-part chorales, songs and arias. His instrumental...
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Ave verum corpus (Mozart) (redirect from Motet in D, "Ave verum Corpus")
Ave verum corpus ("Hail, True Body"), (K. 618), is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the Latin hymn "of...
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Three motets may refer to: Drei Motetten, Op. 39 (Mendelssohn) by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 Three Latin Motets by Charles Villiers Stanford in 1905 This...
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Gilles Motet (French: [mɔtɛ]; born 22 June 1956) is a French scientist in computer science, software engineering and risk management fields. He is now...
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Rosslyn Chapel (redirect from Rosslyn Motet)
Thomas and Stuart Mitchell produced a tune which Stuart calls the Rosslyn Motet. There are more than 110 carvings of "Green Men" in and around the chapel...
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Contrafactum (redirect from Contrafactum motet)
In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". The...
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Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur. It was a collection of 34 Latin motets dedicated to the Queen herself, accompanied by elaborate prefatory matter...
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Three Latin Motets, Op. 38, is a collection of three sacred motets based on Latin texts for mixed unaccompanied choir by Charles Villiers Stanford, comprising...
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Josquin des Prez (section Motets)
was a singer, and his compositions are mainly vocal. They include masses, motets and secular chansons. Josquin's biography has been continually revised by...
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and Concerto for Flute and Harp, as well as sacred pieces and masses, the motet Exsultate Jubilate, and the opera Idomeneo, among other works. While visiting...
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Exsultate, jubilate (category Motets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
jubilate (Exult, rejoice), K. 165, is a 1773 motet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This religious solo motet was composed when Mozart was staying in Milan: 25 ...
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sacred works: a mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina a motet by Giovanni Gabrieli a motet by Francis Poulenc Cummings, Robert. "Hodie Christus natus...
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Sicut cervus (Palestrina) (category Motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Sicut cervus is a motet for four voices by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It sets the beginning of Psalm 42, Psalmus XLI in the Latin version of the...
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entire oeuvre, including around 14 masses, 20 chansons and fewer than 10 motets—though the exact numbers vary due to attribution uncertainties. His better-known...
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Music history of France (section Motet)
focusing around the Notre-Dame school of composers. This group developed the motet, a specific musical composition. Notable in the high Middle Ages were the...
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included clausulae, conductus and the motet (most notably the isorhythmic motet), which, unlike the Renaissance motet, describes a composition with different...
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Locus iste (Bruckner) (category Motets by Anton Bruckner)
Locus iste (English: This place), WAB 23, is a sacred motet composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869. The text is the Latin gradual Locus iste for the annual...
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Pierluigi da Palestrina, sorted by genre. The volume (given in parentheses for motets) refers to the volume of the Breitkopf & Härtel complete edition in which...
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major 61: Motet pour le mardy qui précède le caresme in D minor 62: Motet de la Sainte Vierge in C minor 63: Motet pour le roy in D minor 64: Motet pour l'ascension...
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generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light...
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