List of years in music (table)
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Sacred

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  • Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
  • Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentationes, Responsoria, Benedictus, Miserere, multaque alia devotissima cantica ad offitium Hebdomadae Sanctae pertinentia (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Modulorum for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
    • Second book of Sacrae cantiones perornatae for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
    • Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Paulus MelissusHistoria de navicula vehente Christum et periclitante in mari for four voices
  • Diego OrtizMusices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice

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