motet
- n an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
- Director Fred Wolle had chosen for his program a series of cantatas, a motet, the annual performance of the most difficult, most magnificent B Minor Mass.
- Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy of a motet.
- Her hallelujahs are triumphant in the Mozart motet and then shower forth brilliantly again in the Bach cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen.