1559 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Filippo Azzaiolo – Italian: Il secondo libro de villotte del fiore alla padoana con alcune napolitanae e madrigali, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Eighth book of masses: Latin: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Ninth book of masses: Latin: Missa French: A la fontaine du prez for six voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- First through sixth books of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Pierre Clereau
- First book of French: chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Tenth book of French: chansons tant françoises qu'italiennes for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Johannes de Cleve
- First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
- Second book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard)
- Thomas Crecquillon – Seventh book of motets for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Nicolao Dorati – Second book of madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Philibert Jambe de Fer – French: Psalmodie de quarante et un pseaumes royaux (Lyon: Michel Du Bois)
- Clément Janequin – French: Octante deux pseaumes de David traduits en rithme françoise par Cl. Marot et autres avec plusieurs cantiques (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), published posthumously
- Mattheus Le Maistre – Latin: Catechesis numeris musicis inclusa for three voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
- Costanzo Porta
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Adrian Willaert – Musica Nova
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