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motet

noun

as in madrigal

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Recent Examples of motet In between the driving turbulence of its first movement and an unremittingly grim passacaglia as its final movement was an adaptation of a medieval form—the isorhythmic motet—in which searing gestures alternated with passages of ethereal tranquility. —

Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 An early breakthrough came from listening to a traditional singer of the Serer people, whose plaintive melody reminded Catta of a Renaissance motet. —

Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 Philippe Herreweghe led his Ghent choir in a fine performance of Mendelssohn’s motet. —

Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022 As well as hymns, a motet and a sermon, the solemn vespers would include a gigantic two-part oratorio composed by the church’s Cantor—the director of music—with a text taken from St. Matthew’s gospel. —

Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for motet

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Noun

At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.

— Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021