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1. Concept and history up to the Council of TrentThe motet (Middle Latin motetus, Italian  motetto) is an important genre of polyphonic vocal music, originally found in both secular and spiritual spheres but later mostly confined to church music (Music, ecclesiastical). Content of texts was spiritual and secular from the beginning.Following its appearance in the 13th century, the motet rapidly acquired widespread popularity by the early 14th century. However, the use of secular texts in worship incurred restrictions from the church, and ultim…

1. Catholic Mass See WorshipFranz Körndle 2. Music 2.1. Genesis of the polyphonic ordinarium missae It was in the 14th century that musicians began assembling polyphonic settings of the parts of the  ordinarium missae ( Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and  Agnus Dei - and in those days often  Ite missa est) to form a multipart cycle (Worship). In all likelihood, the settings of the mass from Barcelona, Tournai, and elsewhere were not the work of individual composers, but collections of works by a variety of authors. The Messe de Nostre Dame composed in full by Guillaume de Machaut …

The Cecilian Movement was a movement initiated by Regensburg church musicians around the mid-19th century. Its aim was to reform Catholic church music in a secularized world, and to deepen its liturgical significance. In 1868, at a second attempt, the Allgemeine Caecilienverein (‘General Cecilian Association’) was founded, and Pope Pius IX recognized the new society in 1870. The ideas of the Cecilians were not rooted in new ideas of a conservative Regensburg circle, but deliberately drew on older traditions that seemed to be dying out in the wake of Secularization (legal).In fact, t…

1. ConceptKeyboard music in the broadest sense means any music that is played on a keyboard instrument or in the playing of which a keyboard instrument is involved. The word “keyboard” is first attested in the early 19th century; the earlier “clavier,” borrowed from French (like the German Klavier), derives from the Latin  clavis (“key”), which from the Middle Ages denoted the (sounding) note and, from the 13th century, also the finger-operated mechanism for sounding the note. Keys in this physical sense, which in early times (attested from 11…