His most famous choral work is the Advent motet " E ' en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come ", which has been performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge, though its broadcast by the neighbouring Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, in its Advent Carol Service precipitated its popularity.

Isaac composed a 6-voice motet Angeli Archangeli for the Feast of All Saint ’ s Day, honoring angels, archangels, and all other saints.

Looking forward, we are given an image of early word-painting in his motet Mentre che ’ l cor.

* Intret in conspectu, a motet for 6 voices, known from a single source copied out by Handel, who drew on Legrenzi ’ s motet in the chorus ' To thy dark servant ' in the oratorio Samson.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

An example is the 40-part choral motet Love You Big as the Sky by British composer Peter McGarr ( commissioned for the Tallis Festival 2007 ).

In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.

" The Medieval Latin for " motet " is motectum, and the Italian mottetto was also used.

According to Margaret Bent ( 1997 ), " a piece of music in several parts with words " is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve from the 13th to the late 16th century and beyond.

Grocheio believed that the motet was, " not intended for the vulgar who do not understand its finer points and derive no pleasure from hearing it: it is meant for educated people and those who look for refinement in art.

Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.

This is the sort of composition that is most familiarly designated by the term " motet ," and the Renaissance period marked the flowering of the form.

There is also a cantata that is classified, in its entirety, as a motet.

The motet Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren ( BWV 231 ) is spurious ; it is part of a cantata by Telemann.

Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each ; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts.

Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, Byrd's Quomodo cantabimus is the result of a motet exchange between Byrd and Philippe de Monte, who was director of music to the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, in Prague.

Since many of the motet texts of the 1589 and 1591 sets are pathetic in tone, it is not surprising that many of them continue and develop the ' affective-imitative ' vein found in some motets from the 1570s, though in a more concise and concentrated form.

A good example of the transfer system in operation is provided by the first motet from the 1605 set ( Suscepimus Deus a5 ) in which the text used for the Introit has to be reused in a shortened form for the Gradual.

He is also known as Josquin Desprez and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis, although he himself expressed his preferred spelling of his name, Josquin des Prez, in an acrostic in his motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix.

He then traveled to Ferrara to the Este court where he wrote the motet “ La mi la sol la sol la mi ” in merely two days and competed with Josquin for employment: a famous letter from the agent of the Este family compared the two composers, saying that " is of a better disposition among his companions, and he will compose new works more often.

Another famous motet by Isaac is Optime pastor ( Optime divino ), written for the accession to the papacy of Medici pope Leo X.

The only known commemorative music composed after the victory is the motet Canticum Moysis ( Song of Moses Exodus 15 ) Pro victoria navali contra Turcas by the Spanish composer based in Rome Fernando de las Infantas

Dufay's motet Nuper rosarum flores, written for the inauguration of the new dome of Florence Cathedral in 1436, is regarded as the last great isorhythmic motet composition.

Although nominally for liturgical use, the motet has many features in common with Mozart's concert arias, such as those drawn from his operas.

Often his music uses strict canons ; one motet from his book of 52 motets from 1580, in seven voices, has no less than four of the voices entirely derived canonically.

Three masses, a four-voice credo from a mass ( the rest of which has been lost ), two settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, one five-voice Marian antiphon ( Alma Redemptoris mater ), and the music of a six-voice motet ( with the text absent ) are all that survives of his work.

Of his works, one motet, two ballades, and five rondeaux survive, as well as a sixth rondeau which has a contested attribution ( it may be by Passet ).

The Kronos Quartet has also recorded an instrumental version of the motet on their album Black Angels.

This tended to obscure the rhythm supplied by the cantus firmus that had been apparent in the medieval isorhythmic motet.

Around this time he may have been a soldier in the service of the Burgundians, or perhaps the English Earl of Suffolk, as indicated by a line in the memorial motet written on his death by Ockeghem.

In the meantime Howells had been commissioned to write a motet for the memorial service of John F. Kennedy.

An anecdote survives that indicates the musical ability of the young composer: Willaert was surprised to discover the choir of the papal chapel singing one of his own compositions, most likely the six-part motet Verbum bonum et suave, and even more surprised to learn that they thought it had been written by the much more famous composer Josquin.

This motet appears in a manuscript copied between 1516 and 1519, which also contains music by Sebastiano Festa, his possible relative ; since the manuscript is thought to have been copied in northeast Italy, one or more of the motets it contains may have been those he brought to Ferrara.

Among the dateable compositions is the motet for Anne of Brittany ; compositions copied in a manuscript between 1515 and 1519 ; a motet protesting the 1527 sack of Rome ; some madrigals Festa sent to Strozzi in 1528 ( they were named " canti "); a lost 1533 madrigal to a poem by Michelangelo ; music for a 1539 Medici wedding ; and other compositions in hand-written manuscripts which have been dated.

Often, sacred music in the concertato style in the early 17th century was descended from the motet: the texts that a hundred years earlier would have been set for a cappella voices singing in smooth polyphony, would now be set for voices and instruments in a concertato style.

One of his most impressive works, and one of the most impressive achievements in Renaissance polyphony, is his motet Ecce beatam lucem for 40 independent voices, which may have been performed in 1568 in Munich.

While little is known with certainty about his life, he may have been associated with the French royal court, since he wrote at least one motet for them.

Works that have been specifically identified include the Vaughan Williams motet O Clap Your Hands, the final chord from Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, and the reversed finale of Schumann's Symphonic Studies.

Janequin wrote very little liturgical music: only two masses and a single motet are attributed to him, though more may have been lost.

A motet by Marchetto da Padova appears to have been composed for the dedication on March 25, 1305.

Philippe de Vitry, also a representative of the ars nova, invented an improved system of musical notation and may have been the first composer of the isorhythmic motet.