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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- Jesu, deine Passion (Hugo Distler)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria (Carlo Rossini)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria (Serafino Patta)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria I (Anonymous)
- Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Jesu, redemptor omnium (Caspar Ett)
- Jesu, Salvator mundi (Menegali)
- Jesum tradidit impius (Vincenzo Calestani)
- Jesus autem transiens (Anonymous)
- Jesus Christus nostra salus (Heinrich Finck)
- Jesus Christus nostra salus (Thomas Stoltzer)
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- Jesus Christus unser Heiland (Sebastian Knüpfer)
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- Jesus junxit se (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Jesus junxit se a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Jesus lebt, mit Ihm auch ich (Manfred Hößl)
- Jesus sprach zu dem Blinden (Melchior Vulpius)
- Jetzt sprosst herfür (Melchior Franck)
- Joannes est nomen eius (Orlando di Lasso)
- Job tonso capite (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
- Jocundare filia Sion (Silvio Marazzi)
- Joseph fili David (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Joseph, du Sohn David, SWV 323 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Joseph, Fili David (Michael Hermesdorff)
- Joseph, lieber Joseph (Anonymous)
- Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (Erhard Bodenschatz)
- Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (Hieronymus Praetorius)
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- Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (Wolfgang Figulus)
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- Jubilate Deo (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Jubilate Deo (Adriano Banchieri)
- Jubilate Deo (Agostino Agazzari)
- Jubilate Deo (Annibale Orgas)
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- Jubilate Deo (Cristóbal de Morales)
- Jubilate Deo (Damiano Scarabelli)
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- Jubilate Deo (Franz Bühler)
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- Jubilate Deo (Grzegorz Miśkiewicz)
- Jubilate Deo (Guillaume Bouzignac)
- Jubilate Deo (Heinrich Isaac)
- Jubilate Deo (Karl Koch)
- Jubilate Deo (Lorenzo Perosi)
- Jubilate Deo (Natale Monferrato)
- Jubilate Deo (Oliver Hayes)
- Jubilate Deo (Omar Caputi)
- Jubilate Deo (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- Jubilate Deo (prima pars) (Michael Praetorius)
- Jubilate Deo (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Jubilate Deo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Jubilate Deo 2023 (Mariano Garau)
- Jubilate Deo a 10 (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Jubilate Deo a 4 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Jubilate Deo a 5 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Jubilate Deo a 6 (I) (Christoph Straus)
- Jubilate Deo a 6 (II) (Christoph Straus)
- Jubilate Deo a 6 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Jubilate Deo a 8 (Andrea Gabrieli)
- Jubilate Deo a 8 (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Jubilate Deo a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Jubilate Deo a 8 (Peter Philips)
- Jubilate Deo in chordis, SWV 276 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Alexander Utendal)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Alvise Balbi)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Cipriano de Rore)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Gioseffo Guami)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Gregor Aichinger)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Josquin des Prez)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra (Luca Marenzio)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, cantate (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, exultate (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, psalmum dicite (Friedrich Weissensee)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, psalmum dicite a 8 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, servite Domino (Melchior Vulpius)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, servite Domino a 15 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, servite Domino a 5 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, servite Domino a 8 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra, SWV 262 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Jubilate Deo universa terra (Ludwig Ebner)
- Jubilate Deo, omnis terra a 11 (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Jubilate Deo, omnis terra a 8 (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Jubilate Deo, Op. 69, No. 2 (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Jubilate Deo, SWV 332 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Jubilate Domino omnis terra a 6 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Jubilate Domino, cantate (Friedrich Weissensee)
- Jubilate Domino, omnis terra (Dietrich Buxtehude)
- Jubilemus in arca Domini (Andrea Rota)
- Jubilemus singuli (Orlando di Lasso)
- Jubilemus, exultemus from Motet de Sainte Suzanne (François Couperin)
- Jubilet tota civitas (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Jubilieret fröhlich und mit Schall (Michael Praetorius)
- Judaea et Jerusalem (Balthasar Resinarius)
- Judas, that most wicked trader (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- Judge me, O God (Judica me Deus) Op. 91, No. 3 (Dudley Buck)
- Judica me (Heinrich Isaac)
- Judica me Deus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Judica me Deus (John Mundy)
- Judica me Deus (Tiburtio Massaino)
- Judica me Domine (Philippe de Monte)
- Judica me Domine a 6 (Guglielmo Arnone)
- Judica me, Deus (Andrea Cogliati)
- Judica me, Deus (John Sheppard)
- Judica me, Deus (Robert Hugill)
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- Juste et pie (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Justi tulerunt spolia (Orlando di Lasso)
- Justitia Domini (Ludwig Rotter)
- Justitiae Domini (Alessandro Scarlatti)
- Justorum animae (Camille Saint-Saëns)
- Justorum animae (Markus Pfandler)
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- Justorum animae (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Justorum animae (Orlando di Lasso)
- Justorum animae (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Justorum animae (William Byrd)
- Justorum animae, Op. 38, No. 1 (Charles Villiers Stanford)
- Justorum Deus (Daniel Friderici)
- Justus cor suum (Orlando di Lasso)
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- Justus es Domine (Robert White)
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- Justus ut palma florebit (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- Justus ut palma florebit (Johann Baptist Hilber)
- Juxta est dies Domini (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Juxta vestibulum et altare (Christophorus Potier)
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- Keter (Salamone Rossi)
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- Ein Kind ist uns geboren, SWV 302 (Heinrich Schütz)
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- Kindelein zart (Manfred Hößl)
- Kirchenmusik, op. 23 (Felix Mendelssohn)
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- Komm Heiliger Geist (Johann Crüger)
- Komm, Geist des Werdens (Peter Gerloff)
- Komm, Gott Schöpfer (Balthasar Resinarius)
- Komm, Gott Schöpfer (Johann Walter)
- Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heilger Geist (Georg Philipp Telemann)
- Komm, heil'ger Geist (Dmitri Bortniansky)
- Komm, heilger Geist, o Schöpfer du (Hugo Distler)
- Komm, heilig guter Geist (Constantin Christian Dedekind)
- Komm, Heiliger Geist (Albert Becker)
- Komm, Heiliger Geist (Joachim Decker)
- Komm, heiliger Geist (Samuel Scheidt)
- Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (Arnold von Bruck)
- Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (Samuel Scheidt)
- Komm, Heliger Geist (Crato Bütner)
- Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Komm, mein freund (Melchior Franck)
- Kommet her zu mir (Johann Christenius)
- Kommt her und schauet die Werke des Herrn (Johann Heinrich Rolle)
- Kommt her zu mir (Melchior Vulpius)
- Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Kommt her, ihr Gesegneten (Samuel Scheidt)
- Kommt herzu und lasset uns dem Herrn frohlocken (Liebhold)
- Kommt herzu und lasset uns frohlocken (Anonymous)
- Kommt und lasst uns Christus ehren (Michael Praetorius)
- Kommt, lasset uns anbeten (Johann Heinrich Rolle)
- Kontakion for the Feast of the Theophany of our Lord (Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky)
- Kreuzfahrerlied, Op. 138, No. 5 (Max Reger)
- De Kruisbergh (Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué)
- Kyrie (Gonçalo Lourenço)
- Kyrie (No. 1 from 'Andliga sånger') (August Söderman)
- Kyrie eleison (Jorge Moreira)
- Kyrie eleison, CG 69 (Charles Gounod)
- Kyrie Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, SWV 420 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (Hugo Distler)
- Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis (Liebhold)