Waelrant

(wal'-r6nt), Hubert, teacher. b. Tongerloo, Brabant, about 1517; d. Antwerp, Nov. 19, 1595. Studied with Willaert at Venice; founder of school in Antwerp 1547, partner of Laet as publisher; “as teacher he broke with old system of solmisation by hexachords, introducing new system of 7-tone names, bo, ce, di aa lo, ma m, called bocedisation or.” bob is at i on