EX. 7-3 Paris, BN 844 (“Manuscrit du Roi”), interpolation no. 8, transcribed by Judith PerainoStanzas inserted within refrains like this were a distinct genre, called motet enté (“spliced” or
“grafted motet”), and they were quickly assimilated to the polyphonic motet genre as it grew. The
monophonic origins of the genre within the late trouvère repertory, however, should keep us from
assuming that the motet is a polyphonic genre by definition. It is, rather, a hybrid genre, the product of
multiple crossbreedings from various parent genres, both monophonic and polyphonic, both courtly and
ecclesiastical.