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Ninot le Petit (Jean le Petit o Johannes Baltazar, floruit ca. 1500).
French composer whose identity is still uncertain. According to some sources, he could be identified with Joanni Petit, who went to Rome around 1460; nevertheless, the first conclusive evidence is a letter that can be dated 1493 addressed by the musician to Piero de' Medici and signed ôJ. [Johannes or Jean] petit al[ia]s baltazar chantre de N[otre] S[ainte] pereö. From the letter it is evident that Ninot worked with the name Johannes Baltazar at the papal cappella for about six years, from 1488 to 1494. Later his presence is attested as maître de la psallette between 1506 and 1510 at the cathedral of Langres, where he then became canon until 1529, probably the year of his death.
The appellation Ninot le Petit, with which he is commonly cited, derived from the form in which the name appears in the ms. I-Fc 2439 (Nino Lepetit or simply Nino, diminutive of Johannes/Giovanni) in which the expression le petit refers to the musician's probable short stature.
Only few of Ninot's works have come down to us, that is, sixteen chansons, four motets, a mass and a lauda, to which have been added another motet and a chanson of dubious attribution. All the compositions are for 4 voices, with the exception of the chanson Si bibero crathere pleno for 3 voices. The four motets are all composed on sacred texts, although it is not certain that they have a liturgical purpose. In fact, their length might suggest that they were meant instead for private performance. Such hypotheses, nevertheless, could be refuted - as Barton Hudson has suggested - because of the presence of three of them in the ms. I-Rvat 42 used at the papal cappella. The present edition of the motet Psallite noe, Judei credite for four voices is based on the version copied down in the ms. Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, cod. DCCLVIII (I-VEcap 758).1 This codex belongs to a collection of eight Renaissance music manuscripts owned by the Biblioteca Capitolare of the city of Verona, mostly referring to the Verona area and used by the Scuola degli Accoliti, an institution connected to the Cathedral, which probably used them during its activities. The said codices contain mainly sacred polyphonic compositions meant for the main sections of the Mass and of the Liturgy of the Hours.
From the point of view of composition, the motet alternates a homorhythmic refrain with seven imitative and polytextual sections based on a miscellany of texts for Christmas day and the Circumcision of Jesus. There are also frequent phrases in two voices within single sections, a characteristic which makes Ninot's style close to that of his contemporary Jean Mouton, whose motet Sancti Dei omnes has the same refrain structure of the Psallite noe, Judei credite. Critical apparatus Ninot le Petit, [Psallite noe Judei credite]. Source: I-VEcap 758 [Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Ms. DCCLVIII], cc. 26v-30r. Copy; end of the 15th century. oncordances: I-Rvat 42, cc. 48v-52r; I-Fn 107bis, cc. 21v-24r; I-Fn 232, cc. 74v-77r; I-Sc K.I.2, cc. 196v-197r (incomplete); Petrucci 1504/1, cc. 10v-11r, 11v-12r, 10v-11r, 10r-10v. Editions: Barton Hudson (ed.), Johanni Parvi Opera Omnia, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, Hanssler 1979 (Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 87), pp. 84-95. 4 voices: C, CT, T, B. Mode: V.
Text: is present in all voices and is created from a refrain of popular origin which alternates with some stanzas derived from the following sources: Stanza Source
1 Introit for the Mass of Christmas day (see Liber Usualis, ed. 1961, p. 408)
2 Third antiphon for the Lauds of Christmas day (see Liber Usualis, ed. 1961, p. 397)
3a - 3b Fifth antiphon for the second Vespers on the day of the Circumcision of the Lord (see Liber Usualis, ed. 1961, p. 444)
This work will be inserted in a larger project of transcription of the codex I-VEcap 758 with the title Codice VEcap 758. Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare (sec. XV), ed. by Giorgio Bussolin and Stefano Zanus Fortes, Bologna,
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edited by Giorgio Bussolin and St. Zanus Fortes
