Montani A Complete Collection of approved English and Latin Hymns, Liturgical Motets and appropriate Devotional Music for the various seasons of the Liturgical Year.
Ye Souls of the Faithful 114 Latin Hymns and Motets INDEX OF FIRST LINES A No.
Tu gloria Jerusalem Unison or four part chorus (For additional Ceremony Music see Magnificat; Hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin, Motets in honor of the Bl.
Contrary, however, to the custom now, Bach seems to have had the motets accompanied, apparently on the organ; and this fact indicates their principal distinction from the older style.
His works were doubtless performed, more or less frequently; but cantatas and motets were required for the church service, and it was easier to fall back upon the stores of music he had left, than to buy or transcribe new pieces.
Very different was the musical instruction of the Ohrdruf school, which qualified the boys to furnish all the choral music of the church, besides singing motets and concerts at weddings and funerals.
Marie Anne Quinault was another eighteenth century composer who devoted her talents to the writing of motets and other church music.
Her first book ofmotets was published in her fifteenth year, and met with universal success.
Margarita Cozzolani and Lucrezia Orsina Vezzana, both Catholic sisters, won renown by their motets and other sacred works.
As to Holmes, he returned refreshed to his monograph upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus, which has since been printed for private circulation, and is said by experts to be the last word upon the subject.
I remember that during the whole of that memorable day he lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.
Motets for four and eight part Chorus a capella, Op.
I may say, before proceeding to give details of Deering's career, that nearly a hundred years ago an effort was made by a musical amateur to get these Motets scored.
I think it must be to this patron of music that we owe the fine collection of Madrigals and Motets (including the very rare and valuable books of Deering) which are now preserved in the Abbey Library.
I believe it is a misprint for 1617, and it was not likely twenty years would elapse between the publication of two sets of Motets by so prolific a composer.
Curiously enough, a few bars in score of one of the most beautiful Motets was enclosed with a note from a copyist saying that it would take much time and be very expensive.
Judged from an observation in his "Dedication" of the 1617 Motets it would appear that it was in Rome that he wrote them.
So Deering's Motets were laid to rest again for nearly 100 years.
Johann Christoph composed severalMotets (see them discussed in Spitta, i.
Besides the Trauer-Ode, three or four of the church Cantatas and certainly three of the Motets were written for funerals.
There exist, however, eight or ten Motets for double chorus, but they are dispersed in various hands.
On being informed that Bach was Cantor to this school, and that his Motets were venerated there as reliques, he was eager to see them.
On the last three Sundays in Advent and throughout Lent neither Cantatas nor Motets were sung.
Whittaker, Fugitive Notes on certain Cantatas and Motets by J.
Of the Motets that have come down to us as his, only six are Bach's.
He also took part in the chorus, whose duties were to perform in church on Sundays and festivals, as well as to sing motets at weddings and funerals, and at certain times to sing in the streets.
Twelve of his motets are preserved, but they are incoherent in structure, being composed in a time of transition.
Motets by Bach and other composers are sung in the Thomas Church at Leipsic, and in the Kreuz-Church at Dresden at vespers on Saturday afternoons.
He composed sonatas for the clavier, motets and operas.
The motets are compositions in several movements for unaccompanied voices, from three to eight in number.
Four of the motets are for double chorus and in some one can feel "the romantic spirit of Sebastian Bach.
The style of the motets was that of Palestrina and Orlando Lasso, and the texts were chosen from the Bible, especially the Psalms.
Here he composed a large number of motets and sacred pieces, which, being brought under the notice of Pope Urban VIII.
Without Orchestra 5 motets a capella (but there is reason to believe that these, except Komm Jesu komm, were intended to be partly supported by the organ).
Himmelfahrt Jesu (1777), and some seventy cantatas, litanies, motets and other liturgical pieces.
His works are chiefly motets and concertos, which show his genius for rich harmony.
Palestrina died in 1594, but hymn-tunes adapted from his motets and masses are sung today.
He wrote much and was the real founder of the English Church school of composers, but though St. Paul's was at one time well supplied with his motets and anthems, it is impossible now to give a list of Tallis' compositions for the Church.
In Germany, after the invention of harmony, church music was still felt to be too formal for a working force, and there was a reaction against the motets and masses of Palestrina as being too stately and difficult.
What is certain is that his first book of madrigals was published in Venice in 1555, and that in the same year he speaks of himself in the preface of Italian and French songs and Latin motets as if he had recently come from Rome.
His first book of motets appeared at Antwerp in 1556, containing the motet in honour of Cardinal Pole.
Orlando's master) published the enormous collection of Orlando's Latin motets known as the Magnum opus musicum.
His motets hold a more important place than his masses, and in many of the former are to be found elements that are so direct and forceful in expression as almost to be called dramatic.
Protestants composed masses and motets for the Catholic churches, and Catholics arranged choral melodies for the Protestants.
There is no difference between the sacred motets and the secular madrigals of the early polyphonists.
His masses have a character of their own, and in his motets one finds not only a high degree of technical skill, power and sheer beauty, but also a positive white heat of passion curiously kept from breaking out.
Mozart subsequently set the choruses to Latin and German words, and they were adapted as hymns and motets for church use.
In the later Protestant motets the chorale came to play a great part; the various stanzas of a hymn were given different settings, the foundation of each being the hymn tune.
He also wrote many motets on the Song of Solomon, his Stabat Mater, which was edited two hundred and fifty years later by Richard Wagner, and his lamentations, which were composed at the request of Sixtus V.
And if you must try your hand at composition," added Reutter more kindly, "write variations on the motets and vespers which are played in church.
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