With Motets, Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix conclude their innovative exploration of musical worlds comparable to that of 13th c. Northern French artist Villard de Honnecourt. + Graindelavoix’s director Björn Schmelzer contributes his usual striking, iconoclastic essays, presenting the development of the 13th c. motet in France in a radical new light. + Schmelzer underlines the importance of the Villard’s work in our modern-day understanding of how 13th c. music was constructed and perhaps performed. + The same such ideas inform the vocal (and instrumental) textures and delivery.