A report on Choir and Motet

Evensong rehearsal in the quire of York Minster, showing carved choirstalls

The first page from the manuscript of J. S. Bach's Baroque music era motet, entitled Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV226)

Egyptian Alexandria Jewish choir of Rabbin Moshe Cohen at Samuel Menashe synagogue, Alexandria, Egypt

The boychoir Cantores Minores in the Helsinki Cathedral in 2013

Lambrook School choir in the 1960s, a typical boys' school choir of the time

Relief, now in Athens, showing Dionysus with actresses (possibly from The Bacchae) carrying masks and drums

Church singing, Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatensis (14th century)

Luca della Robbia's Cantoria, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

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.

- Choir

In the latter part of the 16th century, Giovanni Gabrieli and other composers developed a new style, the polychoral motet, in which two or more choirs of singers (or instruments) alternated.

- Motet

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Medieval music

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Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries.

A musician plays the vielle in a fourteenth-century medieval manuscript

A sample of Kýrie Eléison XI (Orbis Factor) from the Liber Usualis. The modern "neumes" on the staff above the text indicate the pitches of the melody. [//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Kyrie_XI_%28Orbis_Factor%29_sample.ogg Listen] to it interpreted.

Pérotin, "Alleluia nativitas", in the third rhythmic mode.

Pérotin's Viderunt omnes, ca. 13th century.

Musicians playing the Spanish vihuela, one with a bow, the other plucked by hand, in the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X of Castile, 13th century

Men playing the organistrum, from the Ourense Cathedral, Spain, 12th century

Christian and Muslim playing lutes in a miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X

In this illustration from the satirical collection of music and poetry Roman de Fauvel, the horse Fauvel is about to join Vainglory in the bridal bed and the people form a charivari in protest.

The chanson Belle, bonne, sage by Baude Cordier, an Ars subtilior piece included in the Chantilly Codex

Manuscript of the Mass Missa O Crux Lignum by Antoine Busnois (ca. 1450).

Medieval music includes liturgical music used for the church, and secular music, non-religious music; solely vocal music, such as Gregorian chant and choral music (music for a group of singers), solely instrumental music, and music that uses both voices and instruments (typically with the instruments accompanying the voices).

Of greater sophistication was the motet, which developed from the clausula genre of medieval plainchant.

Anthem

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Musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.

Originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short sacred choral work (still frequently seen in Sacred Harp and other types of shape note singing) and still more particularly to a specific form of liturgical music.

In this sense, its use began ca. 1550 in English-speaking churches; it uses English language words, in contrast to the originally Roman Catholic 'motet' which sets a Latin text.