释义 |
motetmo‧tet /məʊˈtet $ moʊ-/ noun [countable] motetOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French mot ‘word’ - Five masses and two motets survive.
- He transferred the technique to his petits motets, and then to his cantatas.
- Latin motets alongside modern crowd-pullers - which brings us back to hymn-singing, where we began.
- Mozart had become acquainted with the choirmaster there, Anton Stoll, for whom he wrote the exquisite motet Ave verum corpus.
- The motet was replaced by the two forms of anthem, the Mass by the Service.
- They are essentially wordless motets, each polyphonic section neatly dovetailed into the next.
a piece of music on a religious subject |