Wilhelm, Duke of Bavaria, 572
Willaert, Adrian, 555 , 588 , 589 , 593 , 599 –606, 613 , 615 , 617 , 620 , 629 , 635
Benedicta es, coelorum regina, 601 –4
career of, 589 , 600 –661
declamation and, 612 , 646
influence of, 786
madrigal and, 724
pupils of, 605 –6, 607 , 699 , 725 –26
ricercari and, 588 , 607
split choirs and, 611
stylistic moderation of, 601
technical preeminence of, 600 –601
Vespers Psalms, 611 –12William I (the Conqueror), King of England, 397
William (Guillaume) I (the Pious), Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Toulouse, 50
William (Guillaume) IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers, 78 , 106 –7, 112 , 113 , 117
William (Guillaume) of Amiens, 123
Winchester Cathedral, 93
Winchester Tropers, 93 , 155 , 402
wind instruments,
canzona for, 787
concerted style and, 780 , 787
method book, 620Winterfeld, Carl von, 792
Wipo (monk), 86
Wise and Foolish Virgins (verse play), 93
wit, musical. See joke, musica; puns, musicall
Wittenberg, 753 , 760 , 762
“Wolcum yole!” (Britten), 391
Wolfenbüttel codices, 180
Wolfram von Eschenbach, 138
Wolkenstein. See Oswald von Wolkenstein,
women in music,
Christine de Pisane, 447 , 448
Hildegard of Bingen, 90 –93
as troubadours, 110 , 113Worcester, 402