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The 24 pages that link to Motet, each with the reason it gives.

• Renaissance musicRelated: The motet became a central vehicle for sacred polyphony.

• Medieval musicBroader topic: Its layered voices and texts exemplify medieval compositional complexity.

• MadrigalCompared with: The motet shares the madrigal’s polyphony but typically uses sacred Latin texts.

• Cantus firmusRelated: Renaissance motets often build their polyphony around a chant cantus firmus.

• Imitation (music)Related: Imitative counterpoint is a prominent texture in many motets.

• OrganumCompared with: The motet grew from a later stage of the Notre-Dame polyphonic repertory.

• Imitative counterpointRelated: Imitative counterpoint shapes the entrances and texture of many Renaissance and Baroque motets.

• Josquin des PrezRelated: The motet became a principal setting for his close attention to words and musical form.

• Mass (music)Compared with: Motets set sacred texts without necessarily forming movements of a Mass cycle.

• Franco-Flemish SchoolRelated: Motets allowed composers to explore textual expression and intricate imitation.

• Burgundian SchoolRelated: Motets gave composers a setting for ceremonial and devotional works.

• Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaRelated: His motets show how he shaped expressive counterpoint around sacred texts.

• IsorhythmNarrower topic: The medieval motet became the principal setting for elaborate isorhythmic design.

• Gilles BinchoisBroader topic: The motet provides a frame for understanding his less extensive sacred repertory.

• Guillaume de MachautRelated: Machaut’s motets show his command of layered voices and text.

• Guillaume DufayRelated: The motet offered Dufay a setting for ceremonial, devotional, and political occasions.

• Messe de Nostre DameCompared with: Machaut's Mass applies polyphonic craft to a liturgical cycle rather than a motet's layered texts.

• Orlando di LassoRelated: The motet was a principal vehicle for Lasso’s sacred Latin compositions.

• Adrian WillaertNarrower topic: Willaert’s motets display his contrapuntal craft and his approach to sacred vocal writing.

• François CouperinNarrower topic: Couperin composed motets for royal and religious settings, including works for solo voices and continuo.

• Spem in aliumNarrower topic: Spem in alium is a large-scale example of this sacred choral genre.

• Tomás Luis de VictoriaRelated: This genre accounts for many of Victoria’s most celebrated sacred compositions.

• John DunstapleNarrower topic: Several works attributed to Dunstaple belong to this major genre of sacred polyphony.

• Orlande de LassusRelated: Lassus’s many motets show his command of sacred counterpoint and textual expression.