A sixth motet has an obligato figured-bass accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
"The motet sound tends to be smoother, washing over you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Madrigal] Reference
Treated with fungicide, stored motet in thin closed plastic bag at 0-4°C. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
Within the motet cycles little use has been made of liturgical chant models. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The Franco-Flemish motet is here blended with the popular sacred music of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
His most celebrated work, however, is the crisply declamatory motet Sancta Trinitas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Like Peccatem me quotidie, Ne reminiscaris Domine is a penitential motet for four voices. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
As a source of biographical information about Josquin, the motet Illibata is mildly informative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
His interest lay principally in three genres: the mass, the motet, and the French-texted chanson. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
More free in form was the motet, in which religious subjects were treated in contrapuntal fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
In unravelling the enigma of Josquin, the motet Illibata Dei Virgo nutrix makes an ideal starting point. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Through these intensifications the polyphonic song ultimately strove to equal the ambitions of the motet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
He avoided large-scale works, writing no cyclic masses and only one isorhythmic motet Nove cantum melodie. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
We played a symphony at the offertory and sung a motet at the elevation, concluding with four wind instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
Five motets follow the mass, together with a motet in Willaert's memory composed by another pupil, Cipriano de Rore. From Wordnik.com. [Willaert: Missa Mente Tota; Motets, etc] Reference
His early career may have been in France, for Moderne published some chansons and a motet by him between 1538 and 1543. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
This is not surprising, since the serious motet was relatively new at the time and the main genre cultivated in France. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Virgo salutiferi, a vigorous five-voice motet quite different in style from Miserere, probably dates from the same year. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
He was certainly born in Béthune in Northern France, as the title page of his motet collection published in 1545 states. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
His Missa ‘Gaude Barbara’, based on a motet attributed to Mouton, could have been written in homage to his colleague. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The new motet, even when displaying secular texts of amorous character in the vernacular in its lively upper voices, carried a. From Wordnik.com. [MUSICAL GENIUS] Reference
The main work is the early Missa Menta tota, based on a motet of the same name, included here, by his master, Josquin des Prez. From Wordnik.com. [Cinquecento: Willaert, Missa Mente tota and Motets] Reference
In motet composition, as in the writing of madrigals, Lassus began by assimilating the styles fashionable in Italy in his youth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
But remember that an ordinary chanson uses less different styles than a motet and a motet uses less different styles than a mass. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
This woman, who had received a decoration for a fine motet she had composed for the queen's chapel, who was loved and consulted by. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
But what people don't know is that this was actually written a few years earlier as a beautiful eight-part a cappella choral motet. From Wordnik.com. [Unearthing Mendelssohn's Lost Works] Reference
Manchicourt's motets represent three different stages in motet composition from the early decades of the 16th century to the 1550s. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Croll 1952 classified them in five groups: motet cycles, polyphonic settings, mixed settings, homophonic settings and tenor motets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
This was not possible, but the motet and his Requiem Mass the earliest of its kind, unfortunately now lost were sung at his funeral. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
His motet Domine Jesu Christe was awarded first prize at Evreux in 1575; he won again in 1583 with the Cecilian motet Cantantibus organis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
German Viol makers was not less speedily recognised by the Italians than was the learning and power manifested by the Flemish motet writers. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Being commanded to compose a motet for the chapel royal, he chose the verse of the Psalm, "Oh, think of thy servant as concerning thy word,". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
(Soundbite of "Ecce Beatam Lucem") Unidentified Choir #3: (Singing in Latin) FREYMANN-WEYR: The motet made quite an impression and bruised English pride. From Wordnik.com. [Tribute to Thomas Tallis] Reference
But one intelligence analyst told CNN it's a game of nuclear three-card motet, trying to force the CIA to guess which hole in the ground is the right one. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006] Reference
FREYMANN-WEYR: And so Thomas Tallis wrote his own monumental piece, a motet called "Spem in Alium," also for 40 singers, eight five-voice choirs of independent parts. From Wordnik.com. [Tribute to Thomas Tallis] Reference
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