List of years in music (table)
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Events

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Publications

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  • Lodovico Agostini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Giovanni Animuccia – Second book of laudi (Rome: Camerali for Antonio Blado)
  • Giammateo Asola – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Ippolito Baccusi
    • First book of masses, for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
    • First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Lodovico Balbi – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano and sons)
  • Vincenzo Bellavere – First book of Giustiniane
  • Maddalena Casulana – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the second printed collection of music by a woman in European history
  • Pierre CertonLes meslanges (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin), a collection of sacred songs for five, six, seven, and eight voices with one for nine and one for thirteen
  • Francesco Corteccia – Responsories for four voices (Venice: the sons of Antonio Gardano)
  • Guillaume CosteleyMusique de Guillaume Costeley (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of French chansons for five voices
  • Nicolao DoratiLe Stanze della Signora Vittoria Colonna Marchesana di Pescara Illustrissima for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), containing settings of poems by Vittoria Colonna
  • Giovanni Ferretti – Third book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli), also includes two for six voices and a dialogue for eight voices
  • Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice)
  • Nicolas de La GrotteChansons de P. de Ronsard, Ph. Desportes, et autres (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • 5 Masses suavissimis modulationibus refertae (filled with sweet melodies) for four and five voices, book 2 (Venice: Claudio Correggio)
    • Selectiorum aliquot cantionum sacrarum for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Mattheus Le Maistre – First book of motets for five voices (Dresden: Gimel Bergen)
  • Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Third book of masses, for four to six voices (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

Classical music

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References

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  1. ^ Harry B. Lincoln, "Zoilo, Annibale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).