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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- Tabescere me fecit (François Couperin)
- Taedet animam meam (1565) (Orlando di Lasso)
- Taedet animam meam (1582) (Orlando di Lasso)
- Taedet animam meam (José de Torres)
- Taedet animam meam (Orlando di Lasso)
- Der Tag beginnet zu vergehen (Heinrich Albert)
- Der Tag der ist so freudenreich (Johannes Werlin)
- Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich (Johann Hermann Schein)
- Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich (Johannes Eccard)
- Talismane, Op. 141, No. 4 (Robert Schumann)
- Tamquam ad latronem (Giacomo Apollonio)
- Tamquam aurum (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- Tamquam ovis ad occisionem (Giaches de Wert)
- Tanquam agnus (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Tanto signo (Gregor Aichinger)
- Tanto tempore (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
- Tanto tempore (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Tanto tempore (Teodoro Riccio)
- Tanto tempore a 5 (Dominique Phinot)
- Tanto tempore a 8 (Dominique Phinot)
- Tanto tempore vobiscum sum (Francesco Lupino)
- Tanto tempore vobiscum sum (Giulio Belli)
- Tanto tempore vobiscum sum (Philippe Verdelot)
- Tantum ergo (A-flat major) (Anton Bruckner)
- Tantum ergo (Antonio Bergamo)
- Tantum ergo (B-Flat Major) (Anton Bruckner)
- Tantum ergo (Before the Holy Mystery) (Douglas Brooks-Davies)
- Tantum ergo (C Major) (Anton Bruckner)
- Tantum ergo (Camille Saint-Saëns)
- Tantum ergo (Charles H. Giffen)
- Tantum ergo (Claudio Casciolini)
- Tantum ergo (César Franck)
- Tantum ergo (Douglas Brooks-Davies)
- Tantum ergo (Déodat de Séverac)
- Tantum ergo (E-flat major) (Anton Bruckner)
- Tantum ergo (Francesco Iannitti)
- Tantum ergo (François Couperin)
- Tantum ergo (Fábio Soldá)
- Tantum ergo (Gabriel Fauré)
- 3 Tantum ergo (Georg Valentin Röder)
- Tantum ergo (Giuseppe Corsi da Celano)
- Tantum ergo (Hymno, Feria V in Coena Domini) (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Tantum ergo (Ignaz Mitterer)
- Tantum ergo (Jef Tinel)
- Tantum ergo (Jeffrey Quick)
- Tantum ergo (Johann Baptist Singenberger)
- Tantum ergo (Johann Melchior Dreyer)
- Tantum ergo (Lorenzo Perosi)
- Tantum ergo (Louis Vierne)
- Tantum ergo (Marcial del Adalid)
- Tantum ergo (Mel Bonis)
- Tantum ergo (Oliver Hayes)
- Tantum ergo (Oscar Santos)
- Tantum ergo (Paolo Pandolfo)
- Tantum Ergo - ssa (Camille Saint-Saëns)
- Tantum ergo I (Scott Villard)
- Tantum ergo II (Scott Villard)
- Tantum ergo in D Major, WAB 42 (Anton Bruckner)
- Tantum ergo in e (Giuseppe Tartini)
- Tantum ergo in Es, D 962 (Franz Schubert)
- Tantum ergo S 42/1 (Franz Liszt)
- Tantum ergo, CG 217c (Charles Gounod)
- Tantum ergo, I (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Tantum ergo, III (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Tantum ergo, KV 142 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Tantum ergo, Op. 18, No. 1 (Charles-Marie Widor)
- Tantum ergo, Op. 55 (Gabriel Fauré)
- Tantum ergo, Op. 65, No. 2 (Gabriel Fauré)
- TarC LLF-2 Choirbook (Anonymous)
- Te Christe solum novimus (José Maurício Nunes Garcia)
- Te decet hymnus (Orlando di Lasso)
- Te deprecamur largium (Orlando di Lasso)
- Te Deum (Anton Diabelli)
- Te Deum (Orlando di Lasso)
- Te Deum a 8 (Antonio Caldara)
- Te Deum in A, WoO 29 (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Te Deum laudamus (Anonymous)
- Te Deum laudamus (Antonio Sacchini)
- Te Deum laudamus (Cristóbal de Morales)
- Te Deum patrem (Curtio Valcampi)
- Te Deum patrem (Vincenzo Bertolusi)
- Te Deum Patrem ingenitum (Adrian Willaert)
- Te Deum Patrem ingenitum (Andreas Hakenberger)
- Te Deum Patrem ingenitum (Christian Erbach)
- Te Deum Patrem ingenitum (Hieronymus Praetorius)
- Te Deum Patrem ingenitum (Luca Marenzio)
- Te Deum, H 118 (Hector Berlioz)
- Te Deum, H146 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
- Te Deum, KV 141/66b (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Te dignitas presularis (Johannes Brassart)
- Te gloriosus Apostolorum (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
- Te invocamus (Giovanni Francesco Anerio)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Anonymous)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Cosmas Alder)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Diego Ortiz)
- Te lucis ante terminum (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Te mane laudum carmine (Thomas Stoltzer)
- Te matrem Dei laudamus (Jehan L'Heritier)
- Te merito Daniel (Orlando di Lasso)
- Te Rex omnipotens (Francesco Bianciardi)
- Te spectant, Reginalde, poli (Orlando di Lasso)
- Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes (Benjamin Rogers)
- Tempore felici multi numerantur amici (Jacob Handl)
- Tempus adest (Daniel Friderici)
- Tempus est ut revertar (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Tempus est ut revertar (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tempus est ut revertar (Philippe de Monte)
- Tempus meum est (Antoine de Févin)
- Ten si dat die Heere (André Vierendeels)
- Tenebrae factae sunt (Antonio Politano)
- Tenebrae factae sunt (Gaspar van Weerbeke)
- Tenebrae factae sunt (Giuseppe Belloni)
- Tenebrae facti sunt (Pietro Amico Giacobetti)
- Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Friday (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday (Carlo Gesualdo)
- Tenuisti manum (Giovanni Bernardo Zucchinetti)
- Terra tremuit (Alexander Utendal)
- Terra tremuit (Pompeo Cannicciari)
- Terra tremuit (William Byrd)
- Terra tremuit/Angelus Domini, op. 134 (Josef Gruber)
- Terribilis est locus (Mastioletti)
- Terribilis est locus iste (Heinrich Isaac)
- That day of wrath (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- The Great Doxology (Alexander Arkhangelsky)
- The Lord's Prayer (Ernest Carter)
- The souls of the righteous (Colin Davey)
- Then sayde the chefe priest Is it so? (Christopher Tye)
- Then was there one Cornelius (Christopher Tye)
- There is an old belief (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- There is no God (John Farmer)
- There will come soft rains (Carlos Camejo)
- This is the Saint (Henry Bird Collins)
- Thomas qui dicitur didymus (Jacob Meiland)
- Three Aquinas Motets (Douglas Walter Scott)
- Three Motets for Advent and Christmas (Mark Chapman)
- Three Motets, Op. 69 (Felix Mendelssohn)
- Three very short motets (Francis Melville)
- Thus art thou blest that fearest God (John Mundy)
- Tibi Christe (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- Tibi Christe splendor Patris (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi dixit cor meum (Robert Hugill)
- Tibi laus a 4 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Christoph Buel)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Felice Anerio)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Ferdinand di Lasso)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Hans Leo Hassler)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Marco Antonio Ingegneri)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Peter Philips)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Severin Cornet)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Stefano Venturi)
- Tibi laus, tibi gloria - Da gaudiorum praemia a 5 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi omnes angeli (Samuel Webbe)
- Tibi progenies unica patris a5 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi progenies unica patris a6 (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi soli peccavi (Francisco Valls)
- Tibi soli peccavi (Nathaniel Giles)
- Tibi soli peccavi (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tibi vivo (Adrianus Petit Coclico)
- Til stjörnunnar (Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson)
- Timete Dominum (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Timete dominum (Francesco Stivori)
- Timete Dominum (Johann Michael Haydn)
- Timete Dominum (Ludwig Rotter)
- Timete Dominum (William Byrd)
- Timete Dominum omnes sancti ejus (Philippe de Monte)
- Timor Domini (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
- Timor Domini gloria (Orlando di Lasso)
- Timor Domini principium sapientiae (Orlando di Lasso)
- Timor et tremor (Giovanni Gabrieli)
- Timor et tremor (Jeffrey Quick)
- Timor et tremor (Orlando di Lasso)
- Timor et tremor (Sigismondo d'India)
- Tityre tu patulae recubans (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tod Jesu (Karfreitagskantate) (Joseph Gregor Zangl)
- Tod wo ist dein Stachel (Melchior Franck)
- Tolle puerum (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Tolle puerum et matrem (D-Ju MS 33) (Anonymous)
- Tolle trabem (Daniel Friderici)
- Tollite hostias (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Tollite jugum meum (Andrea Gabrieli)
- Tollite jugum meum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
- Tollite jugum meum super vos (Jacob Regnart)
- Tollite portas (Giovanni Battista Martini)
- Tollite portas (William Byrd)
- Tot U sal ick, Heere (André Vierendeels)
- Tot U, mijn God (André Vierendeels)
- Tota die contristatus (Ascanio Trombetti)
- Tota die exprobrabant (Orlando di Lasso)
- Tota formosa (Arnold von Bruck)
- Tota pulchra (Angelina Figus)
- Tota pulchra (Mariano Garau)
- Tota Pulchra 97 (Mariano Garau)
- Tota pulchra a 4 (Heinrich Isaac)
- Tota pulchra es (1541) (Anonymous)
- Tota pulchra es (Alvise Balbi)
- Tota pulchra es (Anton Bruckner)
- Tota pulchra es (Claudin de Sermisy)
- Tota pulchra es (Clément Morel)
- Tota pulchra es (Cornelius Canis)