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

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022

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

The fruit blossomed in the Renaissance music of Willaert, Cyprian de Rore and others and came to its perfection in the later works of Palestrina 154 and Lasso.

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

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 Spalding, Walter Raymond

Willaert is regarded by many as the founder of the madrigal, of which there is more to be said presently.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)