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Decet
Decet may refer to : *In music, a decet —sometimes dectet, decimette, or even tentet—is a composition which requires ten musicians for a performance. * Decet Romanum Pontificem (1521) is the papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther. * Romanum decet pontificem is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent XII (1691—1700) on June 22, 1692, banning the office of Cardinal Nephew. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decet (music)
In music, a decet—sometimes dectet, decimette, or even tentet—is a composition which requires ten musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of ten people. The corresponding German word is Dezett, the French is dixtuor. Unlike some other musical ensembles such as the string quartet, there is no established or standard set of instruments in a decet. History Of the ensemble types named according to the number of musicians in the group, the decet and the larger undecet, duodecet, etc., are names less common in music than smaller groupings. In the eighteenth century, ten-part ensembles were most often encountered in the genre of the wind serenade, or divertimento (for example, Mozart, K. 186 and 166, both for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 English horns, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons). Because the wind-serenade tradition was carried on during the 19th century primarily in France, the term ''dixtuor'' is somewhat more widely used in French than is its English equivalent, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decet Romanum Pontificem
(from Latin: "It Befits the Roman Pontiff"; 1521) is the papal bull which excommunicated the German theologian Martin Luther; its title comes from the first three Latin words of its text. It was issued on January 3, 1521, by Pope Leo X to effect the excommunication threatened in his earlier papal bull, (1520), since Luther had failed to recant. Luther had burned his copy of on December 10, 1520, at the Elster Gate in Wittenberg to indicate his response. There are at least two other important papal bulls with the title : one dated February 23, 1596, issued by Pope Clement VIII, and one dated March 12, 1622, issued by Pope Gregory XV. Toward the end of the 20th century, Lutherans in dialogue with the Catholic Church requested the lifting of this excommunication, but the Roman Curia responded that its practice is to lift excommunications only on those still living. Roland Bainton, in "''Here I Stand'' after a Quarter of a Century", his preface for the 1978 edition of his L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
