1580 in music explained
Events
Bands formed
Popular music
- First recorded appearance of the English ballad Greensleeves.[1]
Publications
- Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
- Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Anthoine de Bertrand
- First book of French: sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Second book of French: sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Joachim a Burck
- Latin: Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- Latin: Hebdomas divinitus instituta for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Girolamo Diruta – Italian: Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Placido Falconio
- Latin: Turbarum voces (Voices of the crowd) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Latin: Voces Christi (Voices of Christ) for three voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Latin: Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of responsories for Holy Week
- Latin: Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a setting of Lamentations
- Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Jacobus Gallus
- First book of masses for seven and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for five voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for four voice (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- Mikołaj Gomółka – Polish: Melodiae ná psałterz polski for four voices (Kraków: Lazarus), a Polish psalter
- Eucharius Hoffmann – German: Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art for four voices, part one (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giorgio Mainerio – Latin: Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Magnificats
- Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte
- Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: hiers of Girolamo Scotto)
- Leonhard Päminger – Latin: Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
- Costanzo Porta – Latin: Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum (Book of Fifty-two Motets) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Johann Wanning – Latin: Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: Kidson, Frank. English Folk-Song and Dance. Read Books. 2008. 26. 978-1-4437-7289-1.