How to Use motet in a Sentence

motet

noun

• But the motet ends with the calm assurance of a Lutheran hymn.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• The Byrd motets luxuriate in eddies, cross-currents and great waves of sound.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2020
• The concert will be broken into four different sets, where each set has one Pärt and one to three of Gesualdo’s motets.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 16 Sep. 2017
• So, all that music was in the house, but then there was this other stuff: four-part motets, usually in sort of old-fashioned 19th-century editions.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• His 1925 double-choir motet is suffused with the lush reticence of the Anglican choral tradition.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• The program of motets should sound especially stunning in Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 2 June 2018
• Tao arranged a pair of Bruckner motets — one for Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer), the other for himself at the piano and Teicher tap dancing.
  — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
  — Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The motets, instrumental sonata and smaller Psalm settings suffered less in this regard, but the reverberation reduced the bigger choral sections to a round blur and tended to smooth out dynamic contrasts.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Classical music, for example, has a history of using Latin in liturgical motets like Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate.
  — Sylvia Varnham O'Regan, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017

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