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.
Top – A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
Pages in this category
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 11,922 total.
(previous page) (next page)L
- Lagrimate occhi dolenti (André Vierendeels)
- Lamberte vir inclite (Johannes Brassart)
- Lamentabatur Jacob (Cristóbal de Morales)
- Lamentabatur Jacob (Giacomo Benincasa)
- Lamentabatur Jacob (Giulio Ciccarelli)
- Lamentabatur Jacob (Jacob Regnart)
- Lamentabatur Jacob (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Lamentabatur Jacob a 12 (Luca Marenzio)
- Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Guillaume Dufay)
- Lamentationes Jeremiae (Estêvão de Brito)
- Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Jacob Handl)
- Lamentations of Jeremiah (Antoine Brumel)
- Lamnatseach al hagitit - For the chief musician on the gitit (Salamone Rossi)
- Lamnatseah 'al hasheminit a 3 (Salamone Rossi)
- Lamnatseah binginot mizmor shir a 4 (Salamone Rossi)
- Lapidabant Stephanum (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Lapidabant Stephanum (Giovanni Maria Nanino)
- Lapidabant Stephanum (Iva Juras)
- Lapidabant Stephanum a 4 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Lapidabant Stephanum a 5 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Lapidaverunt Stephanum (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Lapis quem reprobaverunt aedificantes (Jacob Meiland)
- Lasciate i vostro alberghi (André Vierendeels)
- Lass mich dein sein a 5 (Heinrich Hartmann)
- Lasset uns doch den Herren, unsern Gott, loben, SWV 407 (Heinrich Schütz)
- 6 lateinische Hymnen, Op. 58 (Josef Rheinberger)
- Latinische Vesper für Herrenfeste (Robert Führer)
- Lauda anima mea (Luigi Cherubini)
- Lauda anima mea (Moritz Brosig)
- Lauda anima mea (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda anima mea (Peter Griesbacher)
- Lauda anima mea Dominum (Gregor Aichinger)
- Lauda anima mea Dominum a6 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda anima, Op. 296, No. 5 (Robert Führer)
- Lauda Christum (Jean Mouton)
- Lauda Hierusalem Dominum (Gemignano Capilupi)
- Lauda Ierusalem (Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni)
- Lauda Jerusalem (Francesco Cavalli)
- Lauda Jerusalem (Johann Rosenmüller)
- Lauda Jerusalem (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Lauda Jerusalem (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Lauda Jerusalem a 16 (Johann Rosenmüller)
- Lauda Jerusalem a 5 voci da Cappella (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Lauda Jerusalem a 8 (Cristoforo Montemayor)
- Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Natale Monferrato)
- Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda Jerusalem octavi toni (Giovanni Gastoldi)
- Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609 (Antonio Vivaldi)
- Lauda mater Ecclesia (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Lauda mater Ecclesia a 5 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda mater Ecclesia a 6 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda mater ecclesiae (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Lauda Sion (Anonymous)
- Lauda sion (Anonymous)
- Lauda Sion (Gregor Aichinger)
- Lauda Sion (Luigi Cherubini)
- Lauda Sion (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- Lauda Sion II (Mariano Garau)
- Lauda Sion Salvatorem (Alessandro Grandi)
- Lauda Sion salvatorem (Antoine Brumel)
- Lauda Sion Salvatorem (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Lauda Sion salvatorem (Orlando di Lasso)
- Lauda Sion Salvatorem (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Lauda Sion salvatorem a 10 (Francisco Valls)
- Lauda Sion salvatorem a 8 (Francisco Valls)
- Lauda, Ierusalem, Dominum (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudabit usque ad mortem (Orlando di Lasso)
- Laudabo nomen Dei (Alvise Balbi)
- Laudamus Te (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)
- Laudamus te, O Christe (Johann Abraham Peter Schulz)
- Laudans exsultet gaudio (Giovanni Croce)
- Laudate coeli (Orazio Benevoli)
- Laudate Dominum (Andreas Berger)
- Laudate Dominum (Annibale Perini)
- Laudate Dominum (Burkhart M. Schürmann)
- Laudate Dominum (Caspar Ett)
- Laudate Dominum (Claudio Macchi)
- Laudate Dominum (Claudio Merulo)
- Laudate Dominum (Diego Ortiz)
- Laudate Dominum (Francesco Bianciardi)
- Laudate Dominum (Georg Joseph Vogler)
- Laudate Dominum (Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni)
- Laudate Dominum (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- Laudate Dominum (Giovanni Rovetta)
- Laudate Dominum (Giuseppe Pitoni)
- Laudate Dominum (Gregor Aichinger)
- Laudate Dominum (Henri Du Mont)
- Laudate Dominum (Johann Simon Mayr)
- Laudate Dominum (Lorenzo Perosi)
- Laudate Dominum (Ludwig Senfl)
- Laudate Dominum (Luis Vicente Gargallo)
- Laudate Dominum (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
- Laudate Dominum (Martin Francisco de Cruzelaegui)
- Laudate Dominum (Maître Gosse)
- Laudate Dominum (Michael Praetorius)
- Laudate Dominum (Mogens Pedersøn)
- Laudate Dominum (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Laudate Dominum (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- Laudate Dominum (Psalm 116) (Jan Dismas Zelenka)
- Laudate Dominum (Simone Stella)
- Laudate Dominum (Stefan Stocker)
- Laudate Dominum (Tim Blickhan)
- Laudate Dominum (Tomaso Cecchino)
- Laudate Dominum a 10 (Andrea Gabrieli)
- Laudate Dominum a 8 (Anonymous)
- Laudate Dominum a 8 (Francesco Cavalli)
- Laudate Dominum a 8 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Laudate Dominum a 8 canti concertato (Agostino Steffani)
- Laudate Dominum de caelis (Giovanni Francesco Anerio)
- Laudate Dominum de caelis (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Laudate Dominum de caelis (Philippe de Monte)
- Laudate Dominum de coelis (Floriano Canale)
- Laudate Dominum de coelis (Orlando di Lasso)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Adriano Banchieri)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Alvise Balbi)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Benedetto Bagni)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Giovanni Croce)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Ippolito Baccusi)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Jean de Castro)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Melchior Franck)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Ottavio Vernizzi)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Philipp Dulichius)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Ruggiero Giovannelli)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Serafino Cantone)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Simone Molinaro)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (Stefano Venturi)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius a 12 (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius a 5 (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius a 6 (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus (Antonio Lotti)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus a 16 (Jacob Handl)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus a 24 (Jacob Handl)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus a 4 (Jacob Handl)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus a 8 (1591) (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus a 8 (1612) (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate Dominum in tympanis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Laudate Dominum lucidum templum (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Angel Viro)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Anonymous)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Felice Anerio)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Giuseppe Pitoni)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Noé Faignient)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Ruggerio Argilliano)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Sixt Dietrich)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Thomas Tallis)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Vincenzo Bellavere)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (William Byrd)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes - 1821 (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 12 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 4 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 4 (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 4 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 5 (Andrea Gabrieli)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 6 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 6 (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 6 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 8 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 8 (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes quinti toni (Domenico Lauro)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV 272 (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV 273 (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV 274 (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate Dominum quoniam bonum est (Melchior Vulpius)
- Laudate Dominum quoniam bonus (Orlando di Lasso)
- Laudate Dominum tertii toni (Giovanni Gastoldi)
- Laudate Dominum, CG 105 (Charles Gounod)
- Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes (Anonymous)
- Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes (Pierre de la Rue)
- Laudate Dominum, RV 606 (Antonio Vivaldi)
- Laudate Dominum, S. 57 (Michel-Richard de Lalande)
- Laudate Jehovam, omnes gentes (Georg Philipp Telemann)
- Laudate nomen Domini (Christopher Tye)
- Laudate nomen Domini (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Laudate pueri (Bruno Vlahek)
- Laudate pueri (Cristoforo Montemayor)
- Laudate pueri (Domenico Scarlatti)
- Laudate pueri (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Laudate Pueri (Francesco Cavalli)
- Laudate pueri (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Laudate pueri (Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer)
- Laudate pueri a 5 voci da Cappella (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Laudate pueri a 8 (Michael Praetorius)
- Laudate pueri a 9 (Agostino Steffani)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Anonymous)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Blasius Ammon)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Felice Anerio)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Giovanni Bernardino Nanino)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Josquin des Prez)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- Laudate pueri Dominum (Leone Leoni)