Events January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg. Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.
Publications Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers. Costanzo Antegnati – First book of (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano) Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson. Giammateo Asola – for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano) Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Joachim a Burck – for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann) William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Giovanni Dragoni First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Placido Falconio – for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli) Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns Orlande de Lassus , Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg) Philippe de Monte Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano) Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère) Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets) Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Costanzo Porta – for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri) Antonio Scandello – Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden. Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published. Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.
Births December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (d. 1631) date unknown John Bennet, English composer (d. c. 1614). Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (d. 1641) Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (d. 1631) probable Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (d. c. 1620) Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (d. 1628) Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (d. 1651) Giovanni Priuli, composer (d. 1626) Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (d. 1647)
Deaths March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (b. 1527) April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (b. 1505) August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1511; possibly plague)
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