1563 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Giovanni Animuccia – First book of laudi (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
- Severin Cornet – Italian: Canzoni napolitane for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
- Gallus Dressler – Latin: Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS)
- Giulio Fiesco – Madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes four dialogues, two for seven voice and two for eight voices
- Vincenzo Galilei – First book of Italian: intavolature de lauto (Rome: Valerio Dorico), a collection of lute music, including madrigals and ricercars, by various composers
- Francisco Guerrero – Magnificats in all eight tones (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
- Orlande de Lassus – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antonio Barré)
- Nicolaus Listenius – Latin: Rudimenta Musicae Planae
- Francesco Portinaro – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Classical music
Births
- date unknown
- approximate date
Deaths