The "first documented European music education" in the United States begins in a colony in New Mexico, founded by a group of Spanish friars accompanying Juan de Oñate.[1]
Introitus in dominicis diebus totius anni... (Introits for the Sundays of the whole year) for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
In omnibus totius anni solemnitatibus Introitus et Alleluia ad Missalis Romani formam ordinati... (Introits and Alleluias for all the solemnities of the year...) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Psalms for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), includes pieces for Vespers for the entire year
La pazzia senile, second book for three voices (Venice: Ricciardi Amadino), a madrigal comedy
Giovanni Bassano – Motetti per concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni solemnitatibus for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), Psalms for Vespers for the whole year, also includes two Magnificats and a Te Deum
Epithalamion(Wer rechte Freud wil habn) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Der CXXVIII Psalm, zu hochzeitlichen Ehren (Selig ist der gepreiset) for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Braudt Lied (Gott selber hat auss höchstem Rath) for four voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Giles Farnaby – [20] Canzonets to Fowre Voyces with a Song of Eight Parts (London: Peter Short), with a dedicatory poem in Latin by Anthony Holborne
Bartholomäus Gesius – Der Lobgesang Mariae (Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, Herr Gott dich loben wir) und andere geistliche Lieder (Marian hymns) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), also includes a New Year's motet for eight voices
Claude Le Jeune – Dodécacorde (La Rochelle: Hierosme Haultin), a collection of twelve psalms for two, three, four, five, six, and seven voices
Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Luca Marenzio – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)