Also known as S. William of Dijon, S. Guillaume de Volpiano, Saint William of Dijon
Italian monastic reformer and architect
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Saint William of Volpiano (Italian: Guglielmo da Volpiano; French: Guillaume de Volpiano) also of Dijon, of Saint-Benignus, or of Fécamp (June/July 962 – January 1, 1031) was a Northern Italian monastic reformer, composer, and founding abbot of numerous abbeys in Burgundy, Italy and Normandy. One of William's innovations as a cantor and notator was an alphabetic pitch notation. Its point of reference was the Boethian diagram, which displayed the double octave of the systema teleion in the diato
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