List of years in music (table)
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Events

Publications

  • Lodovico Agostini – Third book of madrigals, for six voices (Ferrara: Francesco Rossi & Paolo Tottorino)
  • Blasius AmonLiber sacratissimarum (quas vulgo introitus appellant) cantionum selectissimus (Vienna: Stephan Creuzer)
  • Vittorio Baldini (ed.) – Il lauro secco (anthology of madrigals)
  • Paolo Bellasio – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Antoine de BertrandAirs spirituels for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains hymns and canticles
  • Jacobus de Kerle – 4 Masses for four and five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
  • Paschal de l'Estocart
    • First book of Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, and seven voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
    • First and Second book of octonaires de la vanité du monde for three, four, five, and six voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
    • Cent vingt et six quatrains du Sieur de Pibrac for two, three, four, five, and six voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent), settings of poems by Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac
  • Francisco Guerrero – Second book of masses (Rome: Domenico Basa)
  • Paolo Isnardi – Magnificats for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
    • Motets for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
    • Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of readings from the Book of Job
    • Etliche außerleßne, kurtze, gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of his chansons with new German texts
  • Carolus Luython – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigaletti et napolitane for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Luca Marenzio – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Claudio MonteverdiSacrae Cantiunculae (Little Sacred Songs) for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardan)
  • Pomponio Nenna – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fourth book of masses (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Piae Cantiones (collection of late medieval Latin songs)

Classical music

Musical theatre

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