1575 in music explained

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 Latin: sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
• Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
• Giammateo Asola – Italian: [[Falsobordone|Falsi bordoni]] per cantar [[Psalms|salmi]] 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 – German: Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein 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 – Latin: Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
• Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of Italian: canzoni alla napolitana 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
  • Latin: Patrocinium musices, 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)
  • French: Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard 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 Italian: napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Costanzo Porta – Latin: Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae 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)^[1]
• April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (b. 1505)^[2]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Annibale (Padovano). Annibale Padovano. Il primo libro de ricercari a quattro voci (Venice, 1556). 1994. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-8240-4503-6. 11.
2. Book: Charles Henry Cooper. Memorials of Cambridge. 22 March 2012. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-04394-6. 152.