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.
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- Adoramus te, Christe II (Giacomo Antonio Perti)
- Adoramus te, Christe III (Giacomo Antonio Perti)
- Adoramus te, Christe, p.v. (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Adoramus te, Jesu Christe a 6 (Jacob Handl)
- Adoramus te, Jesu Christe a 8 (Jacob Handl)
- Adoramus te, Op. 37, No. 2 (Johannes Brahms)
- Adoramus te, op. 66/6 (Oreste Ravanello)
- Adorare Dominum (Francisco Valls)
- Adorate Deum (Heinrich Isaac)
- Adoremus (J. Siniawski)
- Adoremus regem (Johannes Lupi)
- Adorna thalamum (Orlando di Lasso)
- Adorna thalamum (Pandolfo Zallamella)
- Adorna thalamum a 8 (Francesco Soriano)
- Adorna thalamum tuum (William Byrd)
- Adoro te (Mel Bonis)
- Adoro te devote (Anonymous)
- Adoro te devote (Helen Krauch)
- Adoro Te devote (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Adoro te devote latens veritas (Motetti B) (Anonymous)
- Adoro te Domine Iesu Christe (Francisco de Peñalosa)
- Adoro te supplex (Peter Josef Zwyssig)
- Adoro te supplex, CG 133 (Charles Gounod)
- Adoro te supplex, CG 171a (Charles Gounod)
- Adoro te, o panis caelice (Peter Piel)
- Adoro te, o panis caelice (Traditional)
- Adoro, laudo et glorifico te (Philippe de Monte)
- Adstant angelorum chori (Horatio W. Parker)
- Adsunt dies triumphales (Virgilio Mazzocchi)
- Advenit ignis divinus (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
- Advenit ignis divinus (Philippe de Monte)
- Advent Motets (John Reager)
- 9 Advent-Motetten op. 176 (Josef Rheinberger)
- Adventu Domini (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Adversum me loquebantur (Orlando di Lasso)
- Aedes nostra sancta (John Mundy)
- Aedibus in sacris (Daniel Friderici)
- Aestimatus sum (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Aestimatus sum (Giovanni Croce)
- Aetas Carmen Melodiae (Anonymous)
- Aetas carmen melodiae (à 2) (Daniel Friderici)
- Aetas Carmen Melodiae (à 4) (Daniel Friderici)
- Aeterne Rex altissime (Václav Emanuel Horák)
- Aeternus vere est solus Deus (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Afferte Domino (1629) (Antonio Cifra)
- Afferte Domino (Gemignano Capilupi)
- Afferte Domino (Giovanni Rovetta)
- Afflicti pro peccatis - Ut eruas nos (William Byrd)
- Afflicti pro peccatis nostris (Crisostomo Rondini)
- Afflicti pro peccatis nostris (Francesco Stivori)
- Afflictus sum (Adrianus Petit Coclico)
- Afflictus sum (Carl Nielsen)
- Afflictus sum (Hubert Waelrant)
- Afflictus sum (Orlando di Lasso)
- Afflictus sum et humiliatus (Pierre Cadéac)
- Affluat quasi aqua (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Agatha laetissime (Pietro Vinci)
- Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Laudes (Juan Vasquez)
- Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Matutinum - In I Nocturno (Juan Vasquez)
- Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Matutinum - In II Nocturno (Juan Vasquez)
- Agenda Defunctorum - Ad Matutinum - In III Nocturno (Juan Vasquez)
- Agimus tibi (Ferdinand di Lasso)
- Agimus tibi gratias (Cipriano de Rore)
- Agimus tibi gratias (Orlando di Lasso)
- Agimus tibi gratias a 3 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Agimus tibi gratias a 4 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Agimus tibi gratias a 5 (I) (Orlando di Lasso)
- Agimus tibi gratias a 5 (II) (Orlando di Lasso)
- Agli Amori (André Vierendeels)
- Agnus Christus (Anonymous)
- Agnus Dei (Antonio Caldara)
- Agnus Dei (Mariano Garau)
- Agnus Dei (Mark Chapman)
- Agnus Dei (No. 2 from 'Andliga sånger') (August Söderman)
- Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley)
- Agnus Dei I (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Agnus Dei II (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Agnus Dei in F (Théodore Dubois)
- Das Agnus Dei, Op. 138, No. 6 (Max Reger)
- Ah vide Domine nostrum laborem (Johann Hugo von Wilderer)
- Ah, my dear angry Lord (Thomas McLelland-Young)
- Al Corazon divino (Michael Haller)
- Al gran Guglielmo nostro (Orlando di Lasso)
- Al Naharot Bavel (Salamone Rossi)
- Al Paraclito divino (Anonymous)
- Aleluia (Hermes Coelho)
- All Ehr und Lob soll Gottes sein, SWV 421 (Heinrich Schütz)
- All people that on earth do dwell (Huub de Lange)
- All people, clap your hands (Thomas Weelkes)
- Alla Vergine (Lina Braghetta)
- Allaleleluia (Marcos Castán)
- Alle eure Sorgen werfet auf den Herrn (Theodor Christlieb Reinhold)
- Alle gioie (André Vierendeels)
- Alle psallite cum luya (Anonymous)
- Allein auf Gottes Wort (Johann Walter)
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (Hugo Distler)
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (Johann Crüger)
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr a 8 (Michael Praetorius)
- Allein Gott in der Höh, SWV 327 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Leonhard Lechner)
- Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Melchior Franck)
- Alleluia (Anonymous)
- Alleluia (Claudio Macchi)
- Alleluia (Fabio Fresi)
- Alleluia (Francesco Mancini)
- Alleluia (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Alleluia (Giovanni Totaro)
- Alleluia (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
- Alleluia (Maggie Furtak)
- Alleluia (Marcos Castán)
- Alleluia - Ascendit Deus (William Byrd)
- Alleluia - Emitte Spiritum tuum (William Byrd)
- Alleluia al vangelo (Andrea Gabrieli)
- Alleluia and Haec dies (Nicola Vicentino)
- Alleluia Anna Mater (Anonymous)
- Alleluia Assumpta est Maria (II) (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia Assumpta est Maria I (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia Cantemus omnes (Adriano Banchieri)
- Alleluia Christus resurrexit (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Alleluia Ecce Virgo genuit (Christian Geist)
- Alleluia Haec dies a 6 (Andrea Rota)
- Alleluia Magnificat (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia Nativitatis gloriosae (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix (Christopher Tye)
- Alleluia Sancta Dei Genitrix (Anonymous)
- Alleluia surrexit Dominus (Jacquet de Mantua)
- Alleluia Veni Domine (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia Vox exultationis (Omnia Sanctorum) (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia, Christus surrexit (Felice Anerio)
- Alleluia, Confitemini Domino (Jean Mouton)
- Alleluia, Confitemini e Laudate (José Maria Xavier)
- Alleluia, Congratulamini mihi a 12 (Melchior Franck)
- Alleluia, dic nobis, Maria (Francisco López Capillas)
- Alleluia, Ecce Maria genuit a 12 (Melchior Franck)
- Alleluia, Haec dies (Ignazio Donati)
- Alleluia, Haec dies quam fecit Dominus (Tiburtio Massaino)
- Alleluia, In resurrectione tua Christe (Jacob Handl)
- Alleluia, laudem dicite (Orazio Vecchi)
- Alleluia, laus et gloria (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alleluia, O Patriarcha pauperum (Jan Tollius)
- Alleluia, venite ad me (Johannes de Cleve)
- Alleluia. Agnus redemit oves (Caspar Vincent)
- Alleluia. Ave Maria - Virga Jesse floruit (William Byrd)
- Alleluia. Cantate Domino (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli (William Byrd)
- Alleluia. Confitemini Domino (William Byrd)
- Alleluia. Laudem dicite a 3 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Alleluia. Laudem dicite a 5 (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Alleluia. Surrexit Christus (Girolamo Baglioni)
- Alleluia. Vespere autem Sabbathi (William Byrd)
- Alleluia: Amavit eum (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Benedictus es, Domine (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Caro mea (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: De profundis clamavi (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Dominus regnavit (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Dulce lignum (Book 2) (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Eripe me (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Excite, Domine (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Inter natos mulierum (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Laudate Deum (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Maria Dei Genitrix (Adam Rener)
- Alleluia: Nativitas (Pérotin)
- Alleluia: Omnes gentes (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Ostende nobis, Domine (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Post partum virgo inviolata (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Post partum virgo inviolata (II) (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Spiritus Domini (Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin)
- Alleluia: Tu es Petrus I (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (Heinrich Isaac)
- Alleluja! Lobet den Herren (Psalm 150), SWV 38 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Alleluja, Lobet den Herren (Melchior Franck)
- Alleluja, quando jam emersit (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Alleluja, resurrexit (Moritz Brosig)
- Alleluja, tulerunt Dominum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Alleluja, vox laeta personat (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alleluja. Dies sanctificatus (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alleluya (Thomas Tallis)
- Alleluya Ego dormivi (Johannes Lupi)
- Alleluya ode adonai (Salamone Rossi)
- Aller Augen warten auf dich (Adam Gumpelzhaimer)
- Aller Augen warten auf Dich, Herre (Christoph Dalitz)
- Alles Fleisch ist wie Gras (Johann Adam Hiller)
- Alles was ihr tut (Constantin Christian Dedekind)
- Alma Dei creatoris, KV 272a (KV 277) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Alma Dei mater a 8 (Andrea Rota)
- Alma del Redentor (Giovanni Maria Nanino)
- Alma mia, dove ten vai (André Vierendeels)
- Alma Nemes (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alma parens dilecta Deo (Orlando di Lasso)
- Alma parens redemptoris (Giovanni Battista Bassani)
- Alma Redemptoris (Antonio Cifra)
- Alma Redemptoris (Francesco Soriano)
- Alma redemptoris mater (Adrian Willaert)
- Alma redemptoris mater (Aires Fernandes)
- Alma Redemptoris Mater (Andrea Cogliati)
- Alma redemptoris mater (Andreas de Silva)
- Alma redemptoris mater (Elzear Genet)