MOUTON, JEAN, an eminent French musician, born in 1461, of whose life very little is known. Glarean, who was personally acquainted with Mouton at Paris in 1521, declares him to have been a native of France. Some writers have stated that Mouton was chapel-master to Louis XII. and Francis I. of France, but there is no evidence for that. He was a pupil of Josquin Depres, according to Adrian Willaert, his scholar. Several of his motets were published at Venice and at Paris in the earlier part of the sixteenth century. Hawkins and Burney gave specimens of his music; and Forkel, in the second volume of his History of Music, pp. 660-7, published Mouton's motet for four voices, Confitemini Domino. In the article Music will be found an elegant air by Mouton, and a very remarkable passage of unprepared dissonances from one of his motets. (G. P. G.)