1510s in music

The decade of the 1510s in music involved some significant events.

Events

1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.
1517:
* March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.
* April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.
* June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".
* Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed Voice teacher by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.
1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

1511:
*Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo
*Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
*Sebastian Virdung – Musica getutscht und angezogen, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses, also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue
1517:
* Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus.
* Sebastian z Felsztyna – Opusculum musicae compilatum.
1518:
*The Medici Codex
*Franchinus Gaffurius – De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus. Milan.

1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.
1513: Heinrich Isaac – Optime pastor, motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
1514: Costanzo Festa – Quis dabit oculis, funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
1519: Adrian Willaert – Quid non ebrietas designat, setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices

Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist
Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style

date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer

probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer