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Willaert

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[wil-ahrt, vil-] / ˈwɪl ɑrt, ˈvɪl- /

noun

  1. Adrian c1480–1562, Flemish composer.


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Klaas Willaert, an international maritime lawyer who has served as a Belgian delegate to the Seabed Authority, denounced the arrangements.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

“They are relying on a legal loophole here,” Mr. Willaert said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

Certain it is that, despite the earlier publications of Petrucci, the madrigal became dominant in Italy after the advent of Willaert.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

The Venetian composers, notably Willaert, had also quite fully developed this principle of Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant harmony in order to give homogeneity to their antiphonal choruses.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding

Besides these he produced "The Mass of Adrien Willaert," "The Childhood of Montaigne," "Shakespeare and his Family," "Vesalius," "Hamlet," and "Murillo in his Studio."

From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Walter Rowlands

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