Events

January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.^{[citation needed]}
First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.^{[citation needed]}
Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.

Publications

Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein 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 Asola – Falsi 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 Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones Sacrae
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 Falconio – Introitus 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 Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
Antonio Scandello – Newe 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.

Births

December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (died 1631)
date unknown
- John Bennet, English composer
- Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer
- Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (died 1631)
probable
- Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (died c.1620)
- Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (died 1628)
- Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1651)
- Giovanni Priuli, composer (died 1626)
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (died 1647)

Deaths

March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (born 1527)^[1]
April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (born 1505)^[2]
August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1511)

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