1576 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Giammateo Asola
- Latin: [[Vespers|Vespertina]] majorem [[solemnity|solennitatum]] [[Psalms|psalmodia]] for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes two Magnificats
- Latin: [[Requiem mass|Missa pro defunctis]] (Mass for the dead) for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Lodovico Balbi – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Antoine de Bertrand – French: Les amours de Pierre Ronsard put to music for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts from Pierre de Ronsard's French: Les Amours
- Fabrice Caietain – Airs for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains settings of poems by Ronsard and other contemporary poets
- Thomas Crecquillon – Motets for four, five, six and eight voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Estevan Daça – Italian: El Parnasso (Valladolid: Diego Fernando de Cordova), a collection of pieces for the vihuela
- Andrea Gabrieli – Latin: Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, liber primus for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Latin: Patrocinium musices, Part 5 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of Magnificats for four, five, six, and eight voices
- Third book of German: schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni de Macque – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tiburtio Massaino
- Psalms for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Giuseffo Guglielmo)
- Philippe de Monte – Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Leonhard Päminger – Latin: Tertius tomus ecclesiasticarum cantionum... (Third book of ecclesiastical songs), published posthumously in Nuremberg
- Bonifacio Pasquale – Italian: I [[psalms|salmi]] che si cantano tutto l'anno al [[Vespers|Vespro]] a cinque voci et un [[Magnificat]] a otto... (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Classical music
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