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MOTET
(MOH-tet)
A
composition based on a sacred text and usually sung without
accompaniment
Common
clues: Palestrina piece; Choral
work; Church composition; Sacred song; A cappella composition
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Video:
Mozart Motet
Part 1
In
Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of
highly varied choral musical compositions.
Johann
Sebastian Bach also wrote six surviving works he called motets.
The
name comes either from the Latin movere, ("to move") or
a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or
"verbal utterance." The Mediaeval Latin for "motet"
is "motectum". If from the Latin, the name describes
the movement of the different voices against one another.
According
to Margaret Bent (1997), "'a piece of music in several parts
with words' is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve
from the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century and beyond.
This is actually very close to one of the earliest descriptions
we have, that of the late thirteenth-century theorist Johannes de
Grocheio." Grocheio was also one of the first scholars to
define a motet. Grocheio believed that the motet was "not
intended for the vulgar who do not understand its finer points
and derive no pleasure from hearing it: it is meant for educated
people and those who look for refinement in art."
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MOTET
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16 We+ >1 09 Sacred song PSALM
9
We- >1 06 Choral composition
06
Sacred song sung a capella
4
Th >1 08 Choral piece
4
Th- >1 05 Choral work
3
We >1 00 Church composition
3
We- >1 06 Church music
3
Tu+ >1 90 Sacred composition
2
Tu >1 04 Church song PSALM
2
We CSy 08 Contrapuntal choral composition
2
Th LAT 08 Liturgical piece
2
Fr- >1 08 Liturgical song
2
Th >1 97 Palestrina piece
2
Th LAT 07 Sacred piece
1
We CSy 03 A cappella composition
1
Sa NYT 87 Bach art form
1
Fr NYT 98 Bach composition FUGUE SUITE
1
Fr CSy 07 Choral music composition
09
Church choral work
96
Musical composition ETUDE NONET OCTET PIECE RONDO SUITE
1
Th LAT 00 Musical form
1
Th NYT 93 Musical work PIECE
1
Mo NYT 57 Piece of music CHORD SHEET
1
Fr CSy 03 Polyphonic choral piece
1
We CSy 97 Polyphonic choral work
3
We+ >1 02 View from the French Riviera
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