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A decidedly important figure in pre-Baroque music. Waelrant was not simply a composer who attempted to look to the future of music in his settings but also added a great deal through his editing. Together with Laet he was able to print sixteen volumes of various works by a number of composers including his own. The genres in which Waelrant composed were motets, psalms, madrigals, chansons and napolitane. Most of his compositions were quite serious but he had a definite facility for colorful textual renditions understanding the relationship between the textual data and the notational forms. For this reason he employed chordal structures and vertical harmonies with a dominant use of triads and repeated notes in the melodic line. Waelrant also used counterpoint with a number of skillful adaptations during the development of a piece. ~ Keith Johnson, Rovi
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