Motet
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In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic for
The first page from the manuscript of J. S. Bach's Baroque era motet, entitled Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV226)
Polyphony
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Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic vo
Motet
…is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the English musicologist Margaret Bent, "a piece of music in several parts with words" is as precise a definition…
Polyphony in a 10th-century manuscript of Musica enchiriadis
Albanian polyphonic folk group wearing qeleshe and fustanella in Skrapar