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Instead, there were small pieces, quite a few by little-known composers, along with Bruckner motets, bits of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and Bernstein.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024

There is also a selection of shining motets, two attributed to Leonora d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia’s daughter, who may have also been the recipient of Maistre Jhan’s gorgeous “Ecce amica mea.”

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022

I sang him as a boy chorister, but it was random motets scattered throughout the year, and he felt like more of a niche composer than a meat-and-potatoes figure.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

Attempts at theater in polyphonic motets didn’t work, such as the chorus clumsily moving to the lip of the stage in front of Wong, who continued to enthusiastically conduct to thin air.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2017

Of Bach's music we have in the repertories of our best choral societies a number of motets, church cantatas, a setting of the "Magnificat," and the great mass in B minor.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward