1566 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Simon Boyleau – Latin: Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
- Joachim a Burck
- Latin: Harmoniae sacrae for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
- Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Pierre Clereau – First and second books of French: odes de Ronsard for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
- Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Claude Goudimel
- Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
- Jacquet of Mantua – Latin: Himni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
- Orlande de Lassus
- Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- French: Nouvelles chansons for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
- Mattheus Le Maistre – German: Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
- Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
- Melchior Neusidler – Italian: Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Italian: Il desiderio secondo libro
- Costanzo Porta
- Latin: Musica in introitus missarum quae in diebus dominicis toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
- Latin: Musica in introitus missarum quae in solemnitatibus sanctorum omnium toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
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