List of years in music (table)
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  • Elias Nicolaus AmmerbachEin new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
  • Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
  • Giammateo AsolaFalsi bordoni per cantar salmi for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Joachim a BurckZwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
  • William Byrd & Thomas TallisCantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur
  • Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Dragoni
    • First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Placido FalconioIntroitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
  • Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Patrocinium musices, Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
    • Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Philippe de Monte
    • Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
    • Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère)
  • Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
  • Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaMotettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
  • Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Costanzo PortaLitaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
  • Antonio ScandelloNewe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden.
  • Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
  • Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.

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References

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  1. ^ Annibale (Padovano); Annibale Padovano (1994). Il primo libro de ricercari a quattro voci (Venice, 1556). Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8240-4503-6.
  2. ^ Charles Henry Cooper (22 March 2012). Memorials of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-108-04394-6.