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Meanings of motet in English
One of the most important forms of polyphonic music from about 1220 to 1750.
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Usage of motet in English
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Madam Bruna, an Italian singer, sung the motet, and was well accompanied.
2
Mozart wrote this motet for a very accomplished Italian castrato.
3
The chapel choir will sing works including a motet by 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis.
4
He always has the latest novelties from Italy, and when we try this motet here-
5
Photo: Public Domain Michael Stewart says This famous motet deals more with spiritual as opposed to physical desolation.
6
Three fraas and two suurs sang a five-part motet while twelve others milled around in front of them.
7
How spacious it is, and how quiet, full of the sweetness and the beauty of some motet by Byrd.
8
We played a symphony at the offertory and sung a motet at the elevation, concluding with four wind instruments.
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Thus were attained the motet forms and the Mass, and, when the method was applied to secular words, the madrigal.
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De Linant gave me words proper to the subject, and in a week after I had received them the motet was finished.
11
In the motet the first choir begins a fugue, in the midst of which the second choir is heard shouting jubilantly, Sing ye!
12
I can write you a motet, or a sonata, or a waltz, or a cornet solo, with variation-anythingat all, anything you want.
13
Who would have ventured to apply this motet to the brave and clever Saxon, high as he, too, towered above most of his peers?
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Another most striking instance is in the same master's motet, "Sing ye to the Lord," which is written for two choirs of four parts each.
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Motet would get lots of publicity, and E-Minders would get a home.
16
Andrew has written many psalm settings and motets for the Schola.
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Motet through the time