1582 in music explained
Publications
- Lodovico Agostini – Third book of madrigals, for six voices (Ferrara: Francesco Rossi & Paolo Tottorino)
- Blasius Amon – Liber sacratissimarum (quas vulgo introitus appellant) cantionum selectissimus (Vienna: Stephan Creuzer)
- Vittorio Baldini (ed.) – Il lauro secco (anthology of madrigals)
- Paolo Bellasio – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Antoine de Bertrand – French: Airs spirituels for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains hymns and canticles
- Jacobus de Kerle – 4 Masses for four and five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Paschal de l'Estocart
- First book of Latin: Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, and seven voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
- First and Second book of French: octonaires de la vanité du monde for three, four, five, and six voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
- French: Cent vingt et six quatrains du Sieur de Pibrac for two, three, four, five, and six voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent), settings of poems by Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac
- Francisco Guerrero – Second book of masses (Rome: Domenico Basa)
- Paolo Isnardi – Magnificats for four, five, and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Latin: Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Motets for six voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Latin: Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of readings from the Book of Job
- Latin: Etliche außerleßne, kurtze, gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of his chansons with new German texts
- Carolus Luython – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni de Macque – Second book of Italian: madrigaletti et napolitane for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Luca Marenzio – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Monteverdi – Latin: Sacrae Cantiunculae (Little Sacred Songs) for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardan)
- Pomponio Nenna – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fourth book of masses (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Piae Cantiones (collection of late medieval Latin songs)
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