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Definition of Motet

Motet
Motet Mo*tet", n. [F., a dim. of mot word; cf. It. mottetto, dim. of motto word, device. See Mot, Motto.] (Mus.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

Meaning of Motet from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving...
- The petit motet ("little motet") was a genre of domestic sacred chamber music po****r in France during the baroque era. It was the sacred counterpart of...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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...