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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • subject of scholarly debate, as the relationship between clausulae and motets is very complicated. Clausulae eventually became used as substitutes for...
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  • 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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    royale and chamber and performed in some 100 concerts. Some of his grands motets were also performed that year, receiving considerable acclaim. He was appointed...
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  • The World Conference of Life and Work (Swedish: Stora ekumeniska mötet) was held on the initiative of Church of Sweden archbishop Nathan Söderblom in...
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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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    successive choral entries. Some motets, such as Omnes Gentes developed the model almost to its limits. In these motets, instruments are an integral part...
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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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