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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five masses and two motets survive.
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He transferred the technique to his petits motets, and then to his cantatas.
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Latin motets alongside modern crowd-pullers - which brings us back to hymn-singing, where we began.
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Mozart had become acquainted with the choirmaster there, Anton Stoll, for whom he wrote the exquisite motet Ave verum corpus.
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The motet was replaced by the two forms of anthem, the Mass by the Service.
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They are essentially wordless motets, each polyphonic section neatly dovetailed into the next.