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  • She sang with strange pathos "Motet," that beautiful arrangement of

    St. Elmo 1872

  • She sang with strange pathos "Motet," that beautiful arrangement of "The Lord is my Shepherd."

    St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

  • When they were a duo, Fuzz and Carrie also did a night of Talking Heads music with String Cheese Incident's Kyle Hollingsworth and The Motet for a special Halloween show in Denver in 2008.

    Michael Bialas: Four-Cornered in Colorado, Festive Caravan of Thieves Steals the Show 2010

  • When they were a duo, Fuzz and Carrie also did a night of Talking Heads music with String Cheese Incident's Kyle Hollingsworth and The Motet for a special Halloween show in Denver in 2008.

    Michael Bialas: Four-Cornered in Colorado, Festive Caravan of Thieves Steals the Show 2010

  • There are a whole bunch others that are less ubiquitous -- The String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Moe, The Motet.

    Mike Gellman: Jammin' on the One Mike Gellman 2010

  • Throughout the festival, the sound-art installation "The Forty-Part Motet" in which 40 recorded voices will be played through 40 speakers will be available to the public in a studio connected to the Frederick P. Rose Hall.

    Antony and the Johnsons Added to White Light Fest 2010

  • The Mitchells have called the piece The Rosslyn Motet and added words from a contemporary hymn to complete it.

    Music Decoded from DaVinci Code’s Rosslyn Chapel | Impact Lab 2007

  • And this morning as the Motet after Communion we sang the beautiful Bless Thou the Lord, O My Soul, by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov; I believe this is a setting used in the Russian Orthodox liturgy - and specifically unless I'm reading this all wrong, Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Liturgy of John Crysostom."

    Bless Thou the Lord, O My Soul bls 2009

  • And this morning as the Motet after Communion we sang the beautiful Bless Thou the Lord, O My Soul, by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov; I believe this is a setting used in the Russian Orthodox liturgy - and specifically unless I'm reading this all wrong, Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Liturgy of John Crysostom."

    Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009

  • In 1436 we find him in Florence in the retinue of Pope Eugene IV, where he composed the Festival Motet for the consecration of the cathedral built by Brunelleschi.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

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