List of years in music (table)
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Music

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  • Lodovico AgostiniL'Echo et enigmi musicali for six voices, book 2 (Venice: Alessandro Gardano)
  • Costanzo AntegnatiSacrae cantiones (motets) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
  • Giammateo AsolaSecundus liber in quo reliquae missae octonis compositae tonis (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Joachim a BurckThrenodia (Komm wenn du wilt Herr Jesu Christ) for four voices (Frankfurt: Nikolaus Basse)
  • Severin Cornet
    • Cantiones musicae for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
    • Chansons françoyses for five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
    • Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
  • Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Paolo Isnardi
    • Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Masses for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach)
    • Book of villanelle, moresche, and other songs for four, five, six, and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Giovanni de MacqueMadrigaletti et Napolitane for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Luca Marenzio
    • First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Rinaldo del Mel – First book of motets for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte
    • First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Tenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
    • Fourth book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Maria Nanino & Annibal Stabile – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of madrigals for five voices
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Christoph PraetoriusFröliche und liebliche Ehrnlieder for four voices (Wittenberg: Matthäus Welack), in two volumes

Other

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  • Fabritio CarosoIl Ballerino, Italian dance manual, containing much dance music
  • Vincenzo GalileiDialogo della musica antica, et della moderna (Dialogue Concerning Ancient and Modern Music)

Classical music

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  • none listed

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