1569 in music

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Events

January – Fabrizio Dentice entered the service of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma as a lutenist
July 22 – Lodovico Bassano is appointed to the London-based Bassano recorder consort, retrospectively effective to 29 September 1568.^[1]
October – Valentin Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Hungarian rebellion against his employer, Emperor Maximilian II, but he is quickly released.^[2]
date unknown – A portrait of Josquin des Prez, possibly painted in his lifetime, is installed as a side panel of a triptych in the church of Ste Gudule, Brussels. It was destroyed a decade later, along with all the other images in the church, by Protestant iconoclasts.^[3]

Jacques Arcadelt
- Sixth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
- Ninth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
Filippo Azzaiolo – Il terzo libro delle villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e bergamasche, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Ippolito Chamaterò
- Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Il secondo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Il terzo libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Il quarto libro delli madrigali, for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Giulio Fiesco – First book of Musica nova for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first book to set the poetry of Giovanni Battista Guarini
Tiburtio Massaino – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Philippe de Monte
- First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio)
- Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Costanzo Porta – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

Paolo Aretino – Magnificat for five voices, book 1 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
Joachim a Burck – Symbolum apostolicum, nicenum, et canticum symbolum sanctorum Augustinii et Ambrosii for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of masses for five and seven voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Sigmund Hemmel – Der ganz Psalter Davids for four voices (Tubingen: Ulrich Morharts), a German-language psalter, published posthumously
Paolo Isnardi
- Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Psalmi omnes qui ad vesperas for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Orlande de Lassus – Cantiones aliquot for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of motets
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Liber primus motettorum, for five to seven voices, published in Rome

11 September – Vincenza Armani, Italian opera singer, musician and composer (b. c. 1530).
20 September – Agostino Agostini, Italian composer and singer
date unknown – Hoste da Reggio, composer (b. c. 1520)

^ 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).
^ Peter Király, "Bakfark [Bacfarc, Bakfarc, Bakfarkh, Bakffark] [Greff alias Bakfark, Greff Bakfark], Valentin", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Barbara Haggh, "Josquin’s Portrait: New Evidence", in From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum natalicium Willem Elders, edited by Albert Clement and Eric Jas (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994): 91–110.