Madrigals and Motets were both big in the 13th century. The word motet comes from the french word "mot" which means "word" It is a choral piece "with words" Actually motets and madrigals are very similar and are both choral pieces with words. Madrigals usually were written with secular texts and motets with sacred texts.
Motet.
A Madrigal is secular vocal music. A Motet is, for all intents and purposes, a sacred Madrigal; meaning it is religious vocal music.
Both use imitative polyphony or homophony
A Mass is always based on a specific text that is part of the liturgy of a given day. One difference between a renaissance Mass and a motet is that the motet, while usually sacred, was not always specifically connected to texts from the liturgy of the Mass.
madrigal
A motet is an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service. There are to many variations for it to have something to do with mass.
The Italian madrigal led to the development of the English madrigal, but the main difference is the language
A chanson is French and a madrigal is Spanish. They both mean song but a madrigal is more structured around poerty.
Gilles Motet was born on 1956-06-22.
Motet and Mass
The primary technique used in motet composition is homophony.
Gothic Motet is nearly always based on gregorian chant. It contains secular words.