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	Motet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Guillaume Dufay was a transitional figure; he wrote one of the last motets in the medieval, isorhythmic style, the Nuper rosarum flores which premiered in 1436 and was written to commemorate the completion of Filippo Brunelleschi's dome in the Cathedral of Florence.
		Instead, the 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.
		Secular motets continued to be written; these motets typically set a Latin text in praise of a monarch or commemorating some public triumph; the themes of courtly love often found in the medieval secular motet were banished from the Renaissance motet.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Motet (1261 words)

	motet. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The outgrowth of this early motet was the isorhythmic motet of the late 13th and the 14th cent.
		Of the 23 extant motets of Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300–c.1377), an outstanding 14th-century composer, 20 are isorhythmic.
		Outstanding composers are Josquin Desprez and Orlando di Lasso of the Flemish school; the Italians Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Palestrina; the Spaniard Tomás Luis de Victoria; and the Englishmen Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/motet.html (499 words)

	motet - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The 13th-century motet, a creation (c.1200) of the school of Notre-Dame de Paris, was a polyphonic composition based on a tenor that was a fragment of plainsong (or, later, of any type of melody, sacred or secular) arranged in a brief, reiterated rhythmic pattern called an ordo.
		Of the 23 extant motets of Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-c.1377), an outstanding 14th-century composer, 20 are isorhythmic.
		Isorhythmic technique was not confined to the motet and persisted into the mid-15th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-motet.html (586 words)

	Motet - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The earliest motets arose, in the thirteenth century (Bent, 1997), out of the organum tradition exemplified in the Notre Dame school of Leonin and Pérotin.
		Religious compositions in vernacular languages were often called madrigali spirituali, "spiritual madrigals." Secular motets continued to be written; these motets typically set a Latin text in praise of a monarch or commemorating some public triumph; the themes of courtly love often found in the medieval secular motet were banished from the Renaissance motet.
		In the 20th century, composers of motets have been conscious imitators of earlier styles, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Distler, and Ernst Krenek.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Motet (1211 words)

	Dufay's Nuper Rosarum flores is an isorythmic motet, the two tenors of which are constructed from the plainchant ...
		The contrast of the upper voices singing in duet is marked by the absence of the tenor structures and thus, in actuality, the duets are heard as a relief from the isorhythms of the tenors.
		This odd division of the text is due to the motet's structure as a mensuration canon.
		Dufay's motet Nuper rosarum flores is thus situated at a historical crossroads.
	www.haverford.edu /musc/multimedia/music230/voellmy/dufay2.html (1627 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies--The Medieval Motet
		Each motet is linked to at least one other by at least one of these means, and it is clear that this family of motets was created by a group of composers who knew each other's work and were engaged in friendly (we hope) one-upsmanship.
		Motets in England use Latin texts, and the vast majority are sacred works, at a time when French motets with Latin upper-voice texts are often hortatory or topical in nature and French amatory texts are also common.
		But the medieval motet does not die when the early modern motet is born: Du Fay, as already mentioned, was a major contributor to both genres, and other fifteenth-century composers continued on occasion to write motets with chant tenors and repeated rhythmic taleae, and occasionally with multiple texts.
	the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/music/clarkmotet.html (3602 words)

	HOASM: Isorhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the isorhythmic motet it became fragmented into sections of identical rhythm.
		The isorhythmic motet became the major art form of the French Ars Nova.
		Isorhythm enabled the tight organization of extended works, no small advantage in pieces which can baffle all but the most informed listener with their surface complexity of polyrhythms, polymeters, and polytextuality.
	www.hoasm.org /IID/Isorhythm.html (441 words)

	Choral Music In The Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An the isorhythm is a periodic repetition or recurrence of rhythmic periods,often with changing melodic content in the tenor and other parts of 14th- and early 15th-century compositions, especially motets.
		Isorhythm had come to be linked with compositions written to celebrate festal and ceremonial occasions, the strength of that tradition maintained its use in the motet until the mid-15th century.
		The isorhythmic motet has usually been considered mainly a French phenomenon but it became a decisive technique that spread throughout Europe culminating in the motets of Dufay's 13 isorhythmic motets.
	wotan.liu.edu /~braxton/4dufay.html (297 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Isorhythm
		Isorhythm can be a challenging concept because it is sometimes difficult for us to identify it as we listen to isorhythmic music.
		Often, an entire isorhythmic composition will be based on a proportion: for example, in the second half of the piece, the isorhythmic pattern from the first half might be repeated, but twice as fast.
		Isorhythm is one way in which late medieval and early Renaissance composers structured polyphonic works, especially motets and sections of the Mass.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/iso.html (1055 words)

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		This motet is among the 34 polyphonic motets in the Roman de Fauvel and is in the style of the Ars Nova.
		The color of this motet is a rather lengthy pattern consisting of five occurrences of the Talea 1 and Talea 2 pattern.
		This motet is also among the 34 polyphonic motets in the Roman de Fauvel and is in the style of the Ars Nova.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~dnb208/roman (890 words)

	Notes to "ppp" by R. Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Motet on Doo-dah is a member of this portion of the trilogy and combines at least four different style components.
		The composition is an isorhythmic motet in the manner of certain French compositions of the fourteenth century.
		Motet on Doo-Dah is recorded by Harvey Sollberger, Donald Palma, and Daniel Schulman on the New World compact disc, 80541-2.
	lulu.esm.rochester.edu /rdm/notes/ddah.html (419 words)

	GUILLAUME DUFAY/ La Reverdie/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The motet of Bertrandus is important because it was sung at the election of the bishops of Vicenza in 1409 and 1433, so it is unfortunate that it is played, not sung.
		The five singers of this group all play instruments, so only the isorhythmic motet O Sancte Sebastiane and the hymn Exultet caelum laudibus are unaccompanied.
		The other isorhythmic motets are Supremum est and Vassilissa ergo, along with other motets, songs and a hymn.
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/discography/2003/13350.php (231 words)

	Music History Resources
		Motets and Masses were written in the manner of the chanson with freely melodic solo treble coupled with a tenor and supported by a contratenor part in the usual 3-voice texture.
		Burgundian composers continued to write isorhythmic works: Dufay's Nuper rosarum flores written for the dedication of the Duomo in Florence (1436).
		In the medieval motet, the borrowed chant melody was usually in the tenor b.
	www.geocities.com /papandrew/outlines/grout05.html (858 words)

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		His isorhythmic motets were undoubtedly written for special political and social occasions, and his chansons often contained strong personal elements and were set with texts that often reflected political views and reactions of the time.
		The voices within the isorhythmic motets and the chansons would always be very carefully placed to avoid dissonances or other unpleasing sounds.
		Although the tenors were still written first, the superius second, and so forth, (like the isorhythmic motet) the chansons were not dependant upon any particular repeating isorhythm, but on the phrases (both musical and lyrical) which would repeat in a particular order depending on the type of chanson.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~gecarrol/classwork/music/fall02/Mus281Dufay.doc (1634 words)

	Choral Music In The Renaissance
		He is considered to be the father of both the motet and the mass.
		Unlike Dufay's isorhythmic motets, which often name a patron or particular occasion, Josquin's motets make no such references and are thus difficult to date precisely.
		As was mentioned in regard to the decline of the isorhythmic motet, audiences were demanding a clear and consistent relationship between words and music.
	wotan.liu.edu /~braxton/5josq.html (338 words)

	Motet
		Increasingly in the 14th and 15th centuries, motets tended to be
		often found in the medieval secular motet were banished from the Renaissance motet.
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	www.mp3.fm /Motet.htm (958 words)

	Amazon.ca: O Gemma Lux: Music: Huelgas Ensemble,Paul Van Nevel,Guillaume Dufay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the Middle Ages, music was considered a science and isorhythmic motets are constructed according to strict arithmetical principles.
		As this description might indicate, isorhythmic motets are among the most intellectualized and least emotive works in the entire pre-20th-century repertory, yet Paul van Nevel and the Huelgas Ensemble achieve an impressive range of expression on this splendid disc.
		I would say that this recording is the best of the three: in the Huelgas Ensemble's recording you may feel best the medieval -exotic- caracter of these isorythmic motets, as for example their structural clearness and complexity as well as harmonic surprises which seem to come from another planet.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TC4W (863 words)

	VOS QUID ADMIRAMINI / GRATISSIMA VIRGINIS SPECIES
		This analysis attempts to identify some of the elements of construction in the motet, and to determine whether or not (and if so, to what extent) they are heard in performance.
		As an isorhythmic motet, VOS QUID ADMIRAMINI by definition contains a tenor cantus firmus composed of taleas (rhythmic patterns) and colors (repetitions of the melody).
		There are a total of three hockets in the motet all located in the last third of the piece and spaced evenly according to the top voice (see score p.
	www.haverford.edu /musc/multimedia/music230/armour/JAvitry.html (797 words)

	AfricasGateway.com - Store - Dufay: O gemma lux
		Apostolo glorioso (composed for the consecration of a church) and Ecclesie militantis (written for the coronation of a Pope), performed by choir and (antique) brass, are ornate and imposing, while Magnanime gentes laudes, done by one soprano, one tenor, and one trombone doubled by recorder, is intimate and delicate.
		An isorhythm (iso=same) consists of an order of durations or rhythms, known as the 'talea' (literally "cutting"), which is repeated within a tenor melody whose pitch content known as the 'color', varied from the talea.
		The isorhythmic construction was often varied through the use of strict or free rhythmic diminution in the repetition of the color.
	www.africasgateway.com /amazon-buy-B00004TC4W.html (1181 words)

	classical music - andante - o gemma lux
		The isorhythmic motet, overlaying the strictest and most symbol-laden constructive plans with the most intricately inventive melodic fantasy, is the finest flower of medieval church polyphony.
		Paul van Nevel's booklet notes are useful, but the chapter David Fallows devotes to these motets in his book on the composer is no less enthusiastic and gives an insightful account of their differences and their development.
		Their very special character may be one of the reasons why this is the first time that any performing group has attempted to present all 13 motets on a single disc.
	www.andante.com /Magazine/article.cfm?ID=12759 (714 words)

	motet
		The 13th-century motet, a creation (c.1200) of the school of Notre-Dame de Paris, was a polyphonic composition based on a
		The third voice, the triplum, had still another text, and very often the motet combined a triplum that was a French love song and a
		Of the 23 extant motets of Guillaume de
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0834197.html (476 words)

	Motet - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		motet, name for the outstanding type of musical composition of the 13th cent.
		The 13th-century motet, a creation (c.1200) of the school of Notre-Dame de Paris, was a polyphonic composition based on a tenor
		Of the 23 extant motets of Guillaume de Machaut
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=motet (590 words)

	Music 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The motet started in the medieval period, changed to a simpler form in the early Renaissance, then changed back to its more intellectual form by the end of the Renaissance.
		The motet was secular, and the Mass was religious.
		The motet was in the High Renaissance homophonic style, whereas the Mass was usually polyphonic.
	www.scottfoglesong.com /music27/MARenSampleQuiz.htm (644 words)

	The Motet
		of the motet as an independent form begins with the addition of texts not to complete organa but only to discant clausula.
		3. Double motets were three voice compositions where each of the upper two voices had its own text and the text of the lower voice (tenor) was not included in its labeling.
		Conductus motet - discant style upper two voices with tenor on a chant, slower notes.
	home.kc.rr.com /mpfritz/motet.html (1021 words)

	Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Isorhythmic motet (probably for the rededication of the church of St Andrew in Patras, 1426)
		Isorhythmic motet in praise of St James the Greater (probably late 1420s)
		Isoryhthmic motet (probably for the first anniversary of the coronation of Pope Eugenius IV, March 11, 1432)
	www.blueheronchoir.org /current_prg.html (146 words)

	Complete Nuper Rosarum Flores
		These striking qualities are apparent in his famous isorhythmic motet Nuper rosarum flores.
		Like most of Dufay's motets, this work is an occasional piece written for a specific event, namely the consecration of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore at Florence in 1436.
		The motet uses the theme "Terribilis est locus iste" as its cantus firmus.
	www.firebirdeditions.com /complete_nuper_rosarum_flores.htm (264 words)

	The Fourteenth Century
		In addition, Vitry discussed the use of isorhythm, a structural device in which the tenor of a motet or mass movement would be organized into a pattern of exactly-repeated pitches, the so-called color (kuh-LOR), and exactly-repeated rhythmic material, the talea.
		The earliest manuscript to contain isorhythmic motets is an elaborate rendition of the Roman de Fauvel, Paris, B.N. fr.
		He adopted Italian language and forms for most of his secular works but imported the rich texture of the northern isorhythmic motet and some of the complexities of the Ars Subtilior.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/music/vocalmusic/liturgical/introduction/fourteenth.htm (854 words)

	TIMELINE
		along with Dunstable one of big motet composers of 15th c.
		100+ motets among most significant and progressive works.
		233 motets, all but seven freely composed; most in two partes.
	www.bsu.edu /web/jcarter2/timeline.htm (330 words)

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