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Why Mozart composed the motet for Rauzzini and not a female soprano is not known.
In other words, the daily execution of a grand motet on ordinary days would have given place to plainsong on feast days.
Plainchant melodies, or sections of them, were taken as cantus firmi in the earliest forms of polyphony and in the 13th and 14th-century motet and some early mass movements.
The purpose of the grand motet sung that day cannot be clearer.
Then, when words were provided for the added part or parts, a clausula became a motet.
If this Offertory Proper were sung to a simple tone, it would be advantageous to prepare an additional Latin motet appropriate to Requiem Mass.
It is entirely in the tradition of the polychoral, concertante motet which was cultivated especially in Rome during the late baroque era.
In Nisi Dominus Handel continued the tradition of the concertante polychoral motet, which was especially cultivated in Rome at that time.
Joseph Haydn is named as the composer of this festive motet, very suitable for combination with classical Mass settings at services and concerts.
Congregational settings are often used for parts of the service such as the Kyrie and Gloria, while the choir may contribute a motet at the offertory or during the communion.
Between part of the Ordinary McCreesh placed some of Gabrieli's finest motet and canzonas, and the result was sparkling stuff.
Therefore, if it is sung according to the tone set forth in the Liber Usualis, choirs will find that the chant is of ample length and that an additional motet would be superfluous.
Tallis is mostly remembered for his role in composing office hymns and this motet, Spem in alium.
Homilius's motet style is based on different traditions.
The manuscript also includes two masses, a motet, an anthem, and other songs and ballads, both vocal and instrumental.
The third volume of this collection contains compositions of the master motet composers, Homilius and Rolle, as well as works by Graun, Caldara, Fehre, Tag and Hiller.
Hervé Niquet was trained in the major European baroque ensembles and developed an affinity for the great French motet of the 17th and 18th centuries.
And in the dramatic motet In furore, the solo soprano voice competes with the strings to depict both the boundless fury of the first air and the languishing sadness of the second.
A motet is a sacred choral composition in two or more parts.
Children are introduced to early musical instruments and to music as diverse as a Huron folk tale, an Acadian turlutte, a rondeau heard in the court of Louis XIV and a motet composed by a nun from the city of Québec.
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His master also of course made him write an enormous amount of vocal music, and he had to produce a motet every week.
The order on this occasion was a prelude on the organ, then a motet, then the kyrie, which was preceded by a prelude on the organ.
The character and scope of the German motet are thus described by Spitta, vol.
At vespers, the choir sang a motet, and the Magnificat in German, besides leading the congregation in some hymns.
De Linant gave me words proper to the subject, and in a week after I had received them the motet was finished.
It is in contrapuntal style, like the motet, and is usually sung a capella.
The text is taken from the Old Testament, together with part of a hymn or a chorale, and Bach called it a motet.
On no account would they use the organ to accompany a motet.
A motet of Kuhnau's was given at Zittau under his direction.
Madam Bruna, an Italian singer, sung the motet, and was well accompanied.
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