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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- A dolori (Bartolomeo Barbarino)
- A Domino factum est istud (Hans Leo Hassler)
- A la hora nona (Luis Alberto Campos)
- A nostri preghi (Giovanni Animuccia)
- A solis ortus (Adrianus Petit Coclico)
- A solis ortus (Hans Leo Hassler)
- A solis ortus cardine a 3 (Gilles Binchois)
- A solis ortus cardine a 4 (Gilles Binchois)
- A toi je crie (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ab aeterno ordinata sum (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Ab occultis meis (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Ab oriente (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
- Ab oriente venerunt magi (Bartolomeo Lombardo)
- Ab oriente venerunt magi (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- Ab Oriente venerunt Magi (Jacob Handl)
- Ab oriente venerunt magi (Johannes Nucius)
- Ab oriente venerunt magi (Philipp Dulichius)
- Ab ortu solis - Venite comedite (William Byrd)
- Aber das Kind wuchs (Melchior Vulpius)
- Abjice spinam Animae (Daniel Friderici)
- Absalom, mijn zoon (Willem Verkaik)
- Absalon, fili mi (Josquin des Prez)
- Absolve Domine (Peter Cornelius)
- Absterge Domine (Thomas Tallis)
- Accepit ergo Jesus panes (Manuel Cardoso)
- Accepit Iesus calicem a 6 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Acceptabis (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Acceptabis sacrificium (Heinrich Isaac)
- Accessit ad Jesum (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- Accipe dilecte mi (Giovanni Massiccio)
- Accipite et manducate (Jan Tollius)
- Accipite Spiritum sanctum (Jan Tollius)
- Acclamationi divote (Giovanni Legrenzi)
- Accusat triplici (Daniel Friderici)
- Ach bleib bei uns (Johannes Bierreige)
- Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ (Melchior Franck)
- Ach Gott vom Himel sieh darein (polyphonic) (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Ach Gott vom Himmel 2vv (Michael Praetorius)
- Ach Gott vom Himmel 3vv (Michael Praetorius)
- Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein (Melchior Franck)
- Ach Gott von Himmel (Balthasar Resinarius)
- Ach Gott von Himmel sieh' darein (Martin Agricola)
- Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Hugo Distler)
- Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Johannes Eccard)
- Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Michael Altenburg)
- Ach Gott, von Himmel (Benedictus Ducis)
- Ach Gott, wie lang (Benedictus Ducis)
- Ach Herr, ach meiner schone (Johann Hermann Schein)
- Ach Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding, SWV 450 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Ach Herr, ich habe vertrauet (Ferdinand Möhring)
- Ach mein hertzliebes Jesulein (Michael Altenburg)
- Ach, arme Welt, Op. 110, No. 2 (Johannes Brahms)
- Ach, daß ich doch in meinen Augen hätte (Johann Balthasar Erben)
- Ach, Herr, straf mich nicht (Psalm 6), SWV 24 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Ach, Herr, strafe mich nicht (Max Reger)
- Ach, Vater unser, der du bist (Lupus Hellinck)
- Ach, wie sehnlich wart ich der Zeit (Johann Michael Bach)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Antonio Lotti)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Cristóbal de Morales)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Ivo de Vento)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Jacob Regnart)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer a 8 (Melchior Franck)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer, SWV 71 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Ad Dominum dum tribularer (Alessandro Scarlatti)
- Ad Dominum, cum tribularer (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Ad nutum Domini (Johannes Lupi)
- Ad pedes: Ecce super montes (Dietrich Buxtehude)
- Ad perennis vitae fontem (Lambert Pietkin)
- Ad placitum (Andreas Raselius)
- Ad primum morsum (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad quem fugiam (Ignazio Donati)
- Ad sacram mensam properate fideles (Giovanni Sebastiani)
- Ad Sanctam Cæciliam in A minor, Op. 44 (Giorgio Pacchioni)
- Ad Sanctam Cæciliam in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (Giorgio Pacchioni)
- Ad Sanctam Cæciliam in F major, Op. 10, No. 2 (Giorgio Pacchioni)
- Ad stabat coram sacro (Giovanni Paolo Colonna)
- Ad superas arces (Daniel Friderici)
- Ad tantae nativitatis (Cristóbal de Morales)
- Ad te clamamus (Salve regina) (Christopher Tye)
- Ad te desiderat (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- Ad te desiderat (Serafino Patta)
- Ad te Domine a 8 (Philippe de Monte)
- Ad te Domine clamabo (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Ad te Domine levavi (Andreas Hakenberger)
- Ad te Domine levavi (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Ad te Domine levavi (Jacob Regnart)
- Ad te Domine levavi (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad te Domine levavi animam meam (Philippe de Monte)
- Ad te Domine levavi animam meam (Sigismondo d'India)
- Ad te levavi (introit) (Heinrich Isaac)
- Ad te levavi (Ludovico Balbi)
- Ad te levavi (Philippe de Monte)
- Ad te levavi (Robert Hugill)
- Ad te levavi animam meam (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Ad te levavi animam meam (Franz Xaver Witt)
- Ad te levavi animam meam (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Anton Gosswin)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Cipriano de Rore)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Jeffrey Quick)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Mogens Pedersøn)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Robert White)
- Ad te perenne gaudium (Orlando di Lasso)
- Ad te, ò Christe dirigo vota (Tiburtio Massaino)
- Adaperiat Dominus (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Adeste quotquot diligitis Jesum (Georg Arnold)
- Adesto dolori meo (Caspar Vincent)
- Adesto dolori meo (François Gallet)
- Adesto dolori meo, o Deus (Giaches de Wert)
- Adesto unus Deus (Gregor Aichinger)
- Adesto unus Deus (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- Adesto unus Deus omnipotens (Alexio Neandro)
- Adflictus sum (Christian Hildebrandt)
- Adhaesit pavimento (William Mundy)
- Adie mis amors (Anonymous)
- Adiuro vos (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Adiuro vos (Jacob Handl)
- Adiuro vos, filiae Hierusalem (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
- Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem (Jan Tollius)
- Adiutor meus esto Deus (Stefano Felis)
- Adiuva nos Deus (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Adiuvet nos gratia (Michael Kraf)
- Adjuro vos (Abundio Antonelli)
- Adjuro vos (Tiburtio Massaino)
- Adjuro vos filiae (Leone Leoni)
- Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem, SWV 264 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Adjutor meus (Philippe de Monte)
- Adjuva nos Deus (Ferdinand di Lasso)
- Adjuva nos Deus (Simon de Roy)
- Adjuva nos, Deus (Thomas Crecquillon)
- Admiramini dilectionis prodigium (Natale Monferrato)
- Adolescentulae dilexerunt (Giovanni Ghizzolo)
- Adolescentulus (Abundio Antonelli)
- Adolescentulus sum ego (William Mundy)
- Adon Olam (Salamone Rossi)
- Adonay sanctissime domine (Gaspar van Weerbeke)
- Adoramus (Geert Verhallen)
- Adoramus te (Claudio Merulo)
- Adoramus te (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Adoramus te (Gregor Aichinger)
- Adoramus te (Ludovico da Viadana)
- Adoramus te (Quirino Gasparini)
- Adoramus Te (Wietse Stuurman)
- Adoramus te a 6 (Andrea Rota)
- Adoramus te Christe (Agnaldo Baêta)
- Adoramus te Christe (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Adoramus te Christe (Bartolomeo Tromboncino)
- Adoramus te Christe (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Adoramus te Christe (Stefano Venturi)
- Adoramus te Christe I (Francesco Rosselli)
- Adoramus te Domine (Anonymous)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Anonymous)
- Adoramus te, Christe (attrib. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Felice Anerio)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Fritz Brodersen)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Gian Paolo Dal Dosso)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Giovanni Battista Martini)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Giuseppe Corsi da Celano)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Giuseppe Pitoni)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
- Adoramus te, Christe (M. Konz)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Mikolaj Zielenski)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Paolo Agostini)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Richard Quesnel)
- Adoramus te, Christe (Vincenzo Ruffo)
- Adoramus te, Christe a 3 (II) (Orlando di Lasso)
- Adoramus te, Christe a 4 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Adoramus te, Christe a 5 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Adoramus te, Christe I (Giacomo Antonio Perti)
- 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)