motet

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mo·tet /məʊˈtet $ moʊ-/ noun [countable]  a piece of music on a religious subject 经文歌

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motet• Mozart had become acquainted with the choirmaster there, Anton Stoll, for whom he wrote the exquisite motet Ave verum corpus.• Latin motets alongside modern crowd-pullers - which brings us back to hymn-singing, where we began.• He transferred the technique to his petits motets, and then to his cantatas.• The motet was replaced by the two forms of anthem, the Mass by the Service.• Five masses and two motets survive.• They are essentially wordless motets, each polyphonic section neatly dovetailed into the next.Origin motet (1300-1400) Old French mot “word”

mo·tet nounChineseSyllable  

religious piece Corpus subject music on of a a

motet
mo‧tet /məʊˈtet $ moʊ-/ noun [countable]a piece of music on a religious subject

motetBrE /məʊˈtet/ 🔊NAmE /moʊˈtet/ 🔊 nouna short piece of church music, usually for voices only 经文歌（通常为清唱）  ➡  compare cantata