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From volume 2 of the work.

1712157A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — MotetusWilliam Smyth Rockstro


​MOTETUS. A name given, in the infancy of Polyphonic Music, to a middle part, written for the Voice which was afterwards called Medius, ​or Altus. The term was constantly used, in this sense, in the 13th and 14th centuries, and probably, still earlier.

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