Saying motet

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A saying motet is a motet that sets a single, expressive Bible verse to music and interprets it musically. The genre originated in German Lutheran church music at the turn of the 17th century and experienced its heyday in the Baroque era . But slogan motets were also composed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also single movements of multi-part motets like Bach's Jesus, my joy or Brahms' Why is light given to the laborious? can be assigned to the genus.

Originally, the slogan motet was intended for Lutheran worship and took up a key phrase from the Introit , the Epistle or the Gospel of the Sunday in question.

literature

  • Craig J. Westendorf: The Textual and Musical Repertoire of the Spruchmotette. Diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1987.