Paolo Bellasio – Villanellas for three voices, with lute tablature (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Valerio Bona – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Giovanni Croce – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Thomas East (ed.) – The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London: Thomas East), contains new settings by English composers, including Edward Blancks, Edmund Hooper, and John Dowland
Sacri modulorum concentus for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices in two or three choirs with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
First book of motets for four voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Merulo – First book of Canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of keyboard music
Philippe de Monte – Fifteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Third book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Nicola Parma – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Riccardo Rognoni – Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte d'instrumenti et anco diversi passaggi per la semplice voce humana di Richardo Rogniono espulso di Val Tavegia. Venice.
date unknown – Annibale Zoilo, singer and composer (b. c. 1537)
References
^David Lasocki, Denis Arnold, and Fabio Ferraccioli, "Bassano: (2) Lodovico Bassano", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).