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Recent Examples of motet According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works. —
Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 An early breakthrough came from listening to a traditional singer of the Serer people, whose plaintive melody reminded Catta of a Renaissance motet. —Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 Philippe Herreweghe led his Ghent choir in a fine performance of Mendelssohn’s motet. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022 As well as hymns, a motet and a sermon, the solemn vespers would include a gigantic two-part oratorio composed by the church’s Cantor—the director of music—with a text taken from St. Matthew’s gospel. —Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022 See All Example Sentences for motet
Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 An early breakthrough came from listening to a traditional singer of the Serer people, whose plaintive melody reminded Catta of a Renaissance motet. —Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 Philippe Herreweghe led his Ghent choir in a fine performance of Mendelssohn’s motet. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Aug. 2022 As well as hymns, a motet and a sermon, the solemn vespers would include a gigantic two-part oratorio composed by the church’s Cantor—the director of music—with a text taken from St. Matthew’s gospel. —Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022 See All Example Sentences for motet
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The Spiritual Sound Marc-André Hamelin, Found Objects / Sound Objects The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie A year like no other, my 2025 in music was filled with joyous arias and madrigals of melancholy.— Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.— Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
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Ochoa’s snide speech about his privileged private school becomes a wrenching aria of desolation and need.— Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
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Instead, a narrator gives a somewhat notion of what’s what in the language of the audience, as is Akhnaten’s great aria, a hymn to Aten (god of the sun).— Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Brioschi’s sinfonia, Spagnolo explained, was the overture to a Hebrew cantata, the kind of production that regularly involved the collaboration of Jews and non-Jews.— Collin Ziegler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
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Orff originally wrote it for tenor, that soloist’s single appearance in the cantata.— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
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Andoni Bello, an LGBTQ+ activist who played for Mexico in amateur soccer tournaments organized by the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association, said the chant is a form of verbal aggression that can escalate into physical aggression.— Carlos Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
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For those who may have missed it, after Fitzpatrick missed his par putt on the 72nd hole to fall into a playoff against Scheffler at the RBC, some fans in Hilton Head started up a 'USA-USA-USA' chant.— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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And still, Goodell was greeted by a loud chorus of boos.— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
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And as the brightening world starts to resume familiar form, the glorious chorus swells with the songs of blue tits, goldfinches, chaffinches.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
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Above one entryway, a sword is lodged in the stone, said to have found its place there in the eighth century after being thrown more than 100 miles by Roland, the hero of the medieval chanson that bears his name.— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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There are intoxicating traces of chanson, jazz, chamber pop, and folk.— Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 2 Dec. 2025
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Interspersed with folk ballads, this fantasia-like play certainly creates a mood, but struggles to tell a cohesive story.— Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
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That a hushed ballad would be so widely embraced is remarkable.— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
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And finally, along comes Katniss, who in the middle of the 74th Hunger Games sings a dying Rue the lullaby that Lucy Gray sang on their picnic years ago, winning over the audience with her help.— Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recently, Rockabye Baby, the world’s leading lullaby music brand, reimagined the project as a kid-friendly version.— Caché McClay, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
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