Events

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.

Bands formed

The Concerto delle donne is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.

Popular music

First recorded appearance of the English ballad Greensleeves.^[1]

Publications

Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Anthoine de Bertrand
- First book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Second book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
Joachim a Burck
- Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- Hebdomas divinitus instituta for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
Girolamo Diruta – Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Placido Falconio
- Turbarum voces (Voices of the crowd) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Voces Christi (Voices of Christ) for three voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of responsories for Holy Week
- Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a setting of Lamentations
Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Jacobus Gallus
- First book of masses for seven and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for five voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for four voice (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
Mikołaj Gomółka – Melodiae ná psałterz polski for four voices (Kraków: Lazarus), a Polish psalter
Eucharius Hoffmann – Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art for four voices, part one (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giorgio Mainerio – Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Magnificats
Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte
- Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: hiers of Girolamo Scotto)
Leonhard Päminger – Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
Costanzo Porta – Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum (Book of Fifty-two Motets) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Johann Wanning – Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)

Births

July 6 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
date unknown – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, German-Italian performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music (d. 1651)
probable
- Michael East, English organist and composer (d. 1648)
- Thomas Ford, English composer (d. 1648)
- Adriana Basile, Italian composer (d. 1640)

Deaths

January 18 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517)
April 1 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (b. c.1510)
September 15 – Geert van Turnhout, Flemish composer (b. c.1530)
November 30 – Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer (b. c.1530)

Events

Bands formed

Popular music

Publications

Births

Deaths

References