THE HOLY NAME Jesu Dulcis Memoria Motetfor four part chorus St. Bernard T.
If we turn from a frottola to a motet by the same composer, we meet at once the device of canonic imitation and with it a clearly different artistic purpose.
Who would have ventured to apply this motet to the brave and clever Saxon, high as he, too, towered above most of his peers?
De Linant gave me words proper to the subject, and in a week after I had received them the motet was finished.
The grandeur of the opening is suitable to the words, and the rest of the motet is so elegantly harmonious that everyone was struck with it.
Without appearing to observe it, I undertook to compose him a motet for the dedication of the chapel of the Chevrette, and I begged him to make choice of the words.
As if by a miracle, he knew not whether from looking or listening, he found a combination of notes which he had long been seeking for the motet on which he was working.
In fact, he, too, regarded it as medicine, and hoped especially for a favourable effect from the exquisite soprano voice in the motet "Tu pulchra es.
There is musical fun even in his voluminous parody of the stammering style of word-setting in the burlesque motet S.
The quaintest instance is the motet Quid estis pusillanimes [Magnum Opus, No.
His first book of motets appeared at Antwerp in 1556, containing the motet in honour of Cardinal Pole.
For funerals one thaler 15 groschen was paid when the whole school accompanied the procession and a Motet was sung at the house of the deceased.
On ordinary Sundays a Cantata or Motet was performed in each church alternately.
When no Motetwas sung the Cantor's fee was 15 groschen.
We know that Bach composed at least one Latin Motet for double chorus, and Friedemann's share of his father's autographs may have contained it and others known to Forkel but no longer extant.
Johann Christoph, however, is the composer of the Motet Ich lasse dich nicht, so often attributed to Johann Sebastian.
Novello publishes his five- part Motet Christ is risen with an English text.
A motet or cantata was performed every Sunday at the Thomas-Church and Nicolai-Church alternately: a custom which still continues; the service is at 9 A.
Morning service took place at 7 at both St Thomas and St Nicholas; a Latin motet was sung, followed by the Kyrie, Gloria in excelsis, Collect in Latin, and at St Thomas a Litany was sung by four boys and the choir alternately.
Besides the chorales, he instituted the motet for the choir, which was accompanied ordinarily by the organ, but on high festivals by cornets and trombones.
The character and scope of the German motet are thus described by Spitta, vol.
Dr Lillingston also tells us there is a record of an 8-part Motet by Deering having been performed in one of the Churches, the title being O quam Gloriosa.
The short Motet for Teares and Lamentations is in a good contrapuntal style, with many devices which a man would use if he had been educated in a Cathedral Choir.
He also was a contributor to Leighton's Teares and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul, the work in which Bull's beautiful Motet appears.
A really beautiful little motet contained in Sir William Leighton's Teares and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule (1614) entitled In the Departure of the Lord gives me a very high opinion of his Church Music.
Orlando di Lasso's work is full of instances of it, one of the most dramatic of which is the motet Fremuit spiritu Jesus (Magnum Opus No.
The anthem in its present shape is a sort of mixture of the ancient motet and the German cantata.
From themotet it derives its broad and artistically constructed choruses, while the influence of the cantata is seen in its solos and instrumental accompaniment.
Under the influence of the perfected contrapuntal art of the sixteenth century there appeared a form now known as the motet Passion, and for a short time it flourished vigorously.
The motet form, the free fantasia and the choral fantasia forms are all employed, and every device known to his art is applied for the illustration of the text.
In the motet the first choir begins a fugue, in the midst of which the second choir is heard shouting jubilantly, "Sing ye!
The term Motet lacks somewhat of definiteness of the usage of composers.
