motetus

Japanese: motetus
motetus

...This is the original form of the motet. A counterpoint melody with lyrics is called a motetus (Latin), the origin of which is said to be the Old French word mot, meaning "words." Around 1240, the name motetus came to be used to refer to the music itself, and the number of additional voices increased to two, and occasionally to three. A form of mingling of the sacred and the secular also appeared, in which a plain melody that was an expanded part of Gregorian chant was overlaid with a secular song with a French text in the vein of a troubadour song.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "motetus" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…それがモテットの始源の形態である。歌詞を付された対位旋律は〈モテトゥスmotetus〉(ラテン語)と呼ばれ,その語源は古いフランス語で〈ことば〉を意味するmotであったとされる。やがて1240年ころからモテトゥスの名は,その種の作風をもつ楽曲自体の呼称となり,付加声部の数も2声部,まれには3声部にまで増大し,グレゴリオ聖歌の部分を拡大した定旋律の上に,フランス語のテキストをもち,トルベール歌曲の流れを引く世俗歌曲が置かれるという聖俗混交の形も現れた。…

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