the medieval motetSub Arturo plebs has the name of its composer along with those of 14 fellow musicians, plus instructions on how to perform the piece, written into its own lyrics?
Question 2: The name of the motet was preserved in the transition from medieval to ________, but the character of the composition was entirely changed.
Question 3: In the latter part of the 16th century, ________ and other composers developed a new style, the polychoral motet, in which two or more choirs of singers (or instruments) alternated.
Question 4: In the 19th century German composers continued to write motets occasionally, notably Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms (in German) and ________ (in Latin).
Question 5: The name comes either from the Latin movere, ("to move") or a Latinized version of ________mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is "motectum", and the Italian mottetto was also used.
Question 6: The earliest motets arose, in the thirteenth century (Bent, 1997), out of the ________ tradition exemplified in the Notre Dame school of Léonin and Pérotin.
Question 8: Similar compositions in the English language are called anthems, but some later English composers, such as ________, wrote motets in Latin.
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