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Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377)
Motet
Ars Nova style
polytextual
– secular French text with Latin cantus
isorhythmic
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John Dunstable (ca. 1390-1453)
Motet
English discant style
ATB voicing
– all voices texted
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Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1397 – 1474)
Motet
2 examples
– Isorhythmic (SATB)
– English discant style (ATT)
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Josquin desPrez (ca. 1450-1521)
Motet
SATB voicing
6 verses set in 6 differnt imitative style
- canon
- imitative duets
- all voices imitative
- homophonic section
- homophonic coda
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Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594)
Motet
- Balanced melodic phrases
- prepared dissonances
- structural symmetry
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Allergi (1582-1652)
- Alternatim motet
- setting of Psalm 50
- SATTB/SSAB voicing
- Composed for Tenebrae service at Papal chapel
- origanals not allowed to leave chapal
- sung from memory due to service in total darkness
- both Mozart and Mendelsohn transcribed it by ear
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Victoria (1548-1611)
Motet
4 voicing
varies sections of homphony and polyphony
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Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Motet
SATB voicing
Text from Luke 1:38
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Allesandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Motet
- Text: Psalm 110
- Seconda Practica
- SAB solo
- Each soloist has an aria
- duet for Sop. and Alto
- SATB chorus
- Strings
- Continuo
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France
Large-scale work for soloists, chorus, strings, and continuo
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France
small-scale work for soloists and continuo
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Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Grande Motet
- Text: Psalm 51
- SSATB solo – mostly in ensemble
- SATBB chorus
- Strings
- Continuo
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Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
petit motet
SSS voices with continuo
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Litanies de la vierge H 83
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Marc-Antoine Charpantier (1643-1704)
Motet
- Known for a ritornello on “ora pro nobis”
- SSAATB soloist
- 2 violins
- Continuo
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O Jesu Christ, meine Lebens Licht BWV 118
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J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Motet
- SATB chorus
- 2 litui (ancient trumpets)
- cornetto
- 3 trombones
- Text from funeral hymn by Martin Behm
- 1 mvt.
- may also be considered a 1 mvt cantata
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W.A. Mozart (1756-1971)
Motet
SATB chorus, strings, organ
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On The Transmigration of Souls
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John Adams (b. 1947)
Written to commereate 9-1-1
Electronic tape, chorus, childrens chorus, orchestra
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Raua needmine/ Curse upon Iron
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Veljo Tormis (b. 1930)
Estonian composers
- droning
- declamitory statements
- hammer
- highly repetitious
- siren sounds
- wave-like structure
- tritones and 2nds
- Text: Iron cursed man by the desire to create weapons
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Javier Busto (b. 1949)
Spain
Motet
- SAAT divisi
- A capella
- sweeping melody
- close harmonies
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| De La Lande (1657-1726)
Grand Motet
SSATBB solos
SSATBB chorus
2 oboe
2 trumpets
timpani
strings
continuno
Divided into 19 sections
Begins with instrumental simphonie |
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Laudate pueri Dominum (1693-1697)
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Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Petit Motet
Text: Psalm 113
SSB solos
2 violins
continuo
divided into 8 section: Psalm verses 5 & 6 combined
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Surrexit pastor bonus SSWV23
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Samuel Schiedt (1587-1654)
SATB/SATB a cappella
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Rejoice in the Lord always (ca. 1684)
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Verse Anthem
ATB solos
SATB chorus
Strings
Organ
Often called the “Bell Anthem” because of descending, bell-like scalar motif in the instrumental prelude
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Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (ca. 1590-1664)
Motet
SSATB chorus a cappella
inversion of melody on text ” my harp is turned to mourning”
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Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
SATB chorus
2 violins
continuo
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
SATB solos (quartet)
SATB chorus
2 oboes
2 clarinets
2 bassoons
2 horns
2 trumpets
3 trombones
timpani
strings
Strophic – divided into 2 verses
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Ave verum corpus in E-flat Major
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Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
SATB chorus and Organ
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Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
SA chorus and organ (w/o pedals)
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