One of the most important forms of polyphonic music from about 1220 to 1750.
1Madam Bruna, an Italian singer, sung the motet, and was well accompanied.
2Mozart wrote this motet for a very accomplished Italian castrato.
3The chapel choir will sing works including a motet by 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis.
4He always has the latest novelties from Italy, and when we try this motet here-
5Photo: Public Domain Michael Stewart says This famous motet deals more with spiritual as opposed to physical desolation.
6Three fraas and two suurs sang a five-part motet while twelve others milled around in front of them.
7How spacious it is, and how quiet, full of the sweetness and the beauty of some motet by Byrd.
8We played a symphony at the offertory and sung a motet at the elevation, concluding with four wind instruments.
9Thus were attained the motet forms and the Mass, and, when the method was applied to secular words, the madrigal.
10De Linant gave me words proper to the subject, and in a week after I had received them the motet was finished.
11In the motet the first choir begins a fugue, in the midst of which the second choir is heard shouting jubilantly, Sing ye!
12I can write you a motet, or a sonata, or a waltz, or a cornet solo, with variation-anythingat all, anything you want.
13Who would have ventured to apply this motet to the brave and clever Saxon, high as he, too, towered above most of his peers?
14Another 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.
15Motet would get lots of publicity, and E-Minders would get a home.
16Andrew has written many psalm settings and motets for the Schola.