1566 in music
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Events
- none listed
Publications
- Simon Boyleau â Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
- Joachim a Burck
- Harmoniae sacrae for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
- Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Pierre Clereau â First and second books of odes de Ronsard for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
- Andrea Gabrieli â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Claude Goudimel
- Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Francisco Guerrero â First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
- Jacquet of Mantua â Himni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
- Orlande de Lassus
- Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Nouvelles chansons for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
- Mattheus Le Maistre â Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
- Francisco Leontaritis â First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo â First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
- Melchior Neusidler â Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina â Il desiderio secondo libro
- Costanzo Porta
- Musica in introitus missarum quae in diebus dominicis toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
- Musica in introitus missarum quae in solemnitatibus sanctorum omnium toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
Births
- March 30 â Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
- date unknown â Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.
Deaths
- March 26 â Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (b. 1510)[1]
- October 31 â Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (b. 1525)