1585 in music explained
Publications
- Felice Anerio
- First book of Italian: madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Second book of Italian: madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Giammateo Asola
- Latin: Completorium romanum duae Beatae Virginis [[antiphon]]ae, scilicet [[Salve Regina]] & [[Regina caeli|Regina coeli]] (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also includes four other motets
- Latin: [[Hymn]]i ad [[Vespers|vespertina]] omnium [[solemnity|solennitatum]]... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), in two parts
- Ippolito Baccusi – Second book of masses, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Giovanni Bassano
- Fantasies for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Italian: Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.
- Girolamo Belli
- Latin: Psalmi ad vesperas cum hymnis et Magnificat for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of music for Vespers, including psalms, hymns, and a Magnificat
- First book of Latin: Sacrae cantiones for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Joan Brudieu – Madrigals for four voices (Barcelona: Hubert Gotard)
- Joachim a Burck – German: Dreissig geistliche Lieder auff die Fest durchs Jahr for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymn texts by Ludwig Helmbold
- Gioseppe Caimo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
- Giovanni Croce – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Johannes Eccard – Greek, Modern (1453-);: Epithalamion Latin: in honorem nuptiarum D. Simonis Levskeri et Catharinae Joannis Pasauri filiae for six voicer (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Stefano Felis
- Second book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Giovanni Ferretti – Fifth book of Italian: canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Ruggiero Giovannelli – Italian: Gli sdruccioli, his first book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Grandi)
- Gioseffo Guami – First book of motets for five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Francisco Guerrero – Latin: Passio secundum Matthaeum et Joannem (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Paolo Isnardi – Latin: Omnes ad vesperas psalmi for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Jacobus de Kerle – Latin: Selectiorum aliquot modulorum for four, five, and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Latin: Sacrae cantiones for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Latin: Cantica sacra for six and eight voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Lamentations for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
- Madrigals for five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach)
- Claude Le Jeune – French: Livre de mélanges (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin), a collection of chansons
- Luca Marenzio
- Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Second book of Italian: canzonette alla napolitana for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), his second collection of Italian: villanelle
- Third book of Italian: villanelle for three voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Rinaldo del Mel
- Third book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for six and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Benedetto Pallavicino – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Costanzo Porta – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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