motets in English

noun
1
a short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied.
Two short sacred motets (one a solo and the other a duet) by this same composer fill out the program.

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1. Stylistically Chorale motets were similar at first to motets composed in Catholic countries, and made use of the full range of techniques of Franco-Flemish polyphony.

2. Frye wrote masses, motets and songs, including ballades and a single rondeau.

3. Chorales from Motets, BWV 1-200 (other uncomplete version), here

4. 2003 – Jean Richafort: Requiem (in memoriam Josquin Desprez) à 6 voix, motets.

5. (1951) Fünf kleine Festmotetten (Five small festive motets) for three mixed voices with instruments ad lib.

6. In Baroque time, musicians more often praised music as God's ode, manifesting the strength of belief, Vivaldi and Bach created many Motets, actually, to compose basing on the poetries in the Bible.

7. Antiphonals were a simplified type of religious music, which was used in place of motets. The words in this antiphonal were based on verses of scripture found in chapters 2 and 3 of Lamentations

8. Although almost certainly composed in the Baroque period and by an English musician employed at the Archducal court in Brussels, the majority of the 30 double-choir motets in Peter Philips's eight-part Cantiones sacrae (1613) are inspired works cast essentially in the late-Renaissance Italian mould.