1564 in music

Events

Claude Le Jeune comes to Paris and begins to associate with Huguenots.
Richard Farrant is appointed master of the children of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

Paolo Aretino – First and second books of responsories for Holy Week
Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature, contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers
Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices
Gioseppe Caimo – First book of madrigals for four voices
Claude Goudimel – Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David nouvellement mis en musique for four voices, homophonic harmonizations of the melodies from the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter
Philibert Jambe de Fer – Les 150 Psaumes de David à 4 et 5 voix
Orlande de Lassus
*First book of motets for five and six voices
*Fourth book of chansons for four and five voices
Claude Le Jeune – 10 pseaumes de David for four voices
Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for six voices
Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Second book of madrigals for five voices
Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina
Annibale Padovano – First book of madrigals for five voices
Gioan Paien – First book of madrigals for two voices
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of Motets for four voices