James Robert Sterndale-Bennett, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ Most writers on music accord him a position as a contrapuntal composer scarcely second to that of Josquin, and the magnificent copies of his masses made by order of the Princess Margaret of Austria, and now in the libraries of Vienna and Brussels, testify to the value set upon his works by those he served. ”
James Robert Sterndale-Bennett, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ Burney has scored, besides the mass movements, 3 [14] motets, and in this style of composition finds Mouton more smooth and polished than his contemporaries. 'Life in a court' can scarcely account for it. Most great musicians of the time had the same surroundings. Glarean, more reasonably, attributes to zeal and industry the rare facility which separated Mouton from his fellows. The numerous examples drawn from his works for the 'Dodecachordon,' and the evident pride with which Glarean [15] recalls the meeting in Paris, are evidence of the high value set upon the French composer. ”
James Robert Sterndale-Bennett, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ This gives many interesting pieces, the 'Nesciens Mater' (8 à) with 4 of the parts derived canonically from the others, the 'Quis dabit oculis' composed in 1514 on the death of Anne of Bretagne, Queen of France, some Easter pieces, 'Alleluia,' and 'In illo tempore,' and one for Christmas, 'Noe, noe, psallite,' on which Arcadelt afterwards wrote a mass. ”
