Category:Motets
Partially excerpted from the Wikipedia article on motets:
In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... [T]he Renaissance motet is a short polyphonic musical setting in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a religious text not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service. The texts of antiphons were frequently used as motet texts. This is the sort of composition that is most familiarly named by the name of "motet," and the Renaissance period marked the flowering of the form. Renaissance motets were invariably in Latin. If the language of a polyphonic choral work was the vernacular, then the work was a Madrigal.
The name "motet" was preserved into Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to petits motets, sacred choral compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo; and grands motets, which included instruments up to and including a full orchestra. ... In Germany, too, pieces called motets were written in the new musical languages of the Baroque. Both Latin and German languages were used, and the Baroque motets of Germany tended to be longer compositions.
Except for the Mozart Ave verum corpus there were few motets written by 18th-century composers. Motet writing was revived by 19th-century composers, especially German and French composers. And in England, anthems (in English) and motets were written. The practice has continued to the present day by composers imitating the earlier forms and styles.
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- Nunc dimittis (Jacob Regnart)
- Nunc dimittis (John Farmer)
- Nunc dimittis (Samuel Jacobi)
- Nunc dimittis a 14 (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Nunc dimittis a 5 (Juan Barter)
- Nunc dimittis a 7 (Melchior Franck)
- Nunc dimittis a 8 (Iacopo Corfini)
- Nunc dimittis servum tuum (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Nunc dimittis servum tuum (Melchior Franck)
- Nunc dimittis servum tuum (Michael Praetorius)
- Nunc dimittis, Op. 69, No. 1 (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Nunc dimittis, Op. IX, No. 40 (Valentin Rathgeber)
- Nunc gaudere licet (Orlando di Lasso)
- Nunc scio vere (William Byrd)
- Nunc, o Deus (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Nuntium vobis fero (Orlando di Lasso)
- Nuper rosarum flores (Guillaume Dufay)
- Nuptiae factae sunt (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Nuptiae factae sunt (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- Nuptiae factae sunt (Orlando di Lasso)
- Nuptias claras (Orlando di Lasso)
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- O admirabile comertium (Anonymous)
- O admirabile commercium (Adrian Willaert)
- O admirabile commercium (Fabio Costantini)
- O admirabile commercium (Fernando de las Infantas)
- O admirabile commercium (Giovanni Maria Trabaci)
- O admirabile commercium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O admirabile commercium (Girolamo Belli)
- O admirabile commercium (Hans Leo Hassler)
- O admirabile commercium (Ignazio Donati)
- O admirabile commercium (Jacob Handl)
- O admirabile commercium (Jacob Regnart)
- O admirabile commercium (Johannes Regis)
- O admirabile commercium (Josquin des Prez)
- O admirabile commercium (Teodoro Riccio)
- O admirabile commercium (Thomas Stoltzer)
- O admirabile commercium - Germinavit radix Jesse (Loyset Compère)
- O admirabile commercium - Tu lumen (Loyset Compère)
- O admirabile commercium a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O admirabile commertium (William Byrd)
- O admirabile commerzium (Johann Rosenmüller)
- O allmächtiger Gott (Ludwig Senfl)
- O almighty God (George Barcrofte)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Andrea Saladi)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Ascanio Trombetti)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Cipriano de Rore)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Dominique Phinot)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Giaches de Wert)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Giulio Osculati)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Hans Leo Hassler)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Orlando di Lasso)
- O altitudo divitiarum (Sigismondo d'India)
- O amantissime Iesu (Francesco della Porta)
- O amantissime Jesu (Michelangelo Grancini)
- O amica mea (Thomas Morley)
- O angele Dei qui custos (Jacquet de Mantua)
- O anima sanctissima (Carlo Gesualdo)
- 'O'-Antiphonae (Frans Joseph Krafft)
- O Antoni Eremita (Antonio Cifra)
- O Antoni eremita (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O barmherziger Gott (Sixt Dietrich)
- O barmherziger Vater (Andreas Hammerschmidt)
- O beata beatorum (Johannes Roullet)
- O beata et benedicta et gloriosa Trinitas (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O beata infantia (Loyset Piéton)
- O beata Maria (Nicolas Gombert)
- O Beata Mater (Carlo Gesualdo)
- O beata virgo Maria (Tiburtio Massaino)
- O beatae viae, o felices gressus (Claudio Monteverdi)
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- O Beate Maure (Michael Kraf)
- O beate Sebastiane (Francesco Lupino)
- O beate Sebastiane (Jeffrey Quick)
- O beate Sebastiane magna est fides tua intercede pro nobis (Anonymous)
- O beati viri (Michael Kraf)
- O beatissime (Anonymous)
- O Beatum Carolum (Alessandro Tadei)
- O beatum et sacrosanctum diem (Peter Philips)
- O beatum Martinum (Peter Philips)
- O beatum Pontificem (Francesco Bianciardi)
- O beatum Pontificem (Gemignano Capilupi)
- O beatum pontificem (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O beatum pontificem (Luca Marenzio)
- O beatum virum (Giacomo Carissimi)
- O beatum virum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O beatum virum (Herman Hollander)
- O beatum virum Martinum (Philippe de Monte)
- O bless the Lord, O my soul (Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky)
- O bone Deus (Jacob Handl)
- O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu (Josquin des Prez)
- O bone et dulcissime Jesu (Josquin des Prez)
- O bone Iesu (Caterina Assandra)
- O bone Iesu (Giovanni Maria Scorzuto)
- O bone Jesu (Anonymous)
- O bone Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)
- O bone Jesu (Felice Anerio)
- O bone Jesu (Ferdinand di Lasso)
- O bone Jesu (Francesco de Layolle)
- O bone Jesu (Henri Du Mont)
- O bone Jesu (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- O bone Jesu (Ivo de Vento)
- O bone Jesu (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
- O bone Jesu (Joannes de Latre)
- O bone Jesu (Juan de Anchieta)
- O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
- O bone Jesu (Ludwig Senfl)
- O bone Jesu (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- O bone Jesu (Michelangelo Grancini)
- O bone Jesu (Orlando di Lasso)
- O bone Jesu (Philippe de Monte)
- O bone Jesu (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- O bone Jesu (Pieter Maessens)
- O bone Jesu (René Malherbe)
- O bone Jesu (Richard Dering)
- O bone Jesu (Robert Carver)
- O bone Jesu (Robert Parsons)
- O bone Jesu (Óscar Manuel Paredes Grau)
- O bone Jesu a 6 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O bone Jesu a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- O bone Jesu, exaudi me (Andreas Hakenberger)
- O bone Jesu, fili Mariae, SWV 471 (Heinrich Schütz)
- O bone Jesu, Op. 37, No. 1 (Johannes Brahms)
- O bone, o dulcis, o benigne Jesu, SWV 53 (Prima pars) (Heinrich Schütz)
- O caeli cives (Chiara Margarita Cozzolani)
- O Christe animae meae Redemptor (Mariano Garau)
- O Christi fideles (Michelangelo Grancini)
- O claro Diademate (Giulio Belli)
- O clemens, o pia Virgo (Jehan L'Heritier)
- O clementissime ac benignissime Deus (Philippe de Monte)
- O come, let us lift up our voice (John Mundy)
- O Cor Jesu (Anonymous)
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- O crux ave (Jean Courtois)
- O crux ave (Richard Dering)
- O crux ave, spes unica (Giaches de Wert)
- O crux beata (Scipione Dentice)
- O Crux benedicta (Carlo Gesualdo)
- O crux benedicta (Cipriano de Rore)
- O crux benedicta (Claudio Merulo)
- O crux benedicta (Claudio Monteverdi)
- O crux benedicta (Francisco Guerrero)
- O Crux benedicta (Giovanni Priuli)
- O crux benedicta! (Giulio Belli)
- O crux fidelis (Andrea Gabrieli)
- O Crux splendidior (Andrea Bianchi)
- O crux splendidior (Anonymous)
- O crux splendidior (Francisco Guerrero)
- O crux splendidior (Orlando di Lasso)
- O crux splendidior (Peter Philips)
- O crux splendidior (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- O Crux splendidior a 8 (Andrea Gabrieli)
- O crux, ave, spes unica (Antoine Brumel)
- O Crux, ave, spes unica (Cristóbal de Morales)
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- O decus apostolicum (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- O decus celsi (Orlando di Lasso)
- O decus ecclesiae (Heinrich Isaac)
- O desolatorum consolator (Antonius Divitis)
- O desolatorum consolator (Jean Conseil)
- O Deus, ego amo te (Franz Bühler)
- O Dieu des armees, combien (Claude Goudimel)
- O doctor optime (Francisco Guerrero)
- O Doctor optime (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- O Doctor optime a 6 (Giovanni Bassano)
- O domina gloriosa (Johannes Verben)
- O Domine (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- O Domine adiuva me (Joannes de Latre)
- O Domine adjuva me (William Byrd)
- O Domine Dominator (Johann Melchior Gletle)
- O Domine Iesu Christe (Anonymous)
- O Domine Iesu Christe a 6 (Orazio Vecchi)
- O Domine Iesu Christe a 7 (Christoph Straus)
- O Domine Iesu Christe a 8 (Giovanni Bassano)
- O Domine Iesu Christe, adoro te (Melchior Franck)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Andrea Bianchi)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Antoine Brumel)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Christian Erbach)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Francisco Guerrero)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Giovanni Totaro)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Hans Leo Hassler)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (II) (Francisco Guerrero)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Johann Rosenmüller)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Josquin des Prez)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Mariano Garau)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Matthew Locke)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Nicolas Gombert)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Samuel Scheidt)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Sebastian de Vivanco)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Tiburtio Massaino)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Tobias Zeutschner)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Tomaso Pucci)
- O Domine Jesu Christe (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- O Domine Jesu Christe a 4 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)