1566 in music

Events

• ''none listed''

Publications

• Simon Boyleau – Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices
• Joachim a Burck
• *Harmoniae sacrae for five voices
• *Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia
• Pierre Clereau – First and second books of odes de Ronsard for three voices, settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
• Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Claude Goudimel
• *Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices
• *Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices
• Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices
• Jacquet of Mantua – Himni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices, a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices
• *Nouvelles chansons for four voices
• Mattheus Le Maistre – Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng for four and five voices
• Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices
• Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Il desiderio secondo libro
• Costanzo Porta
• *Musica in introitus missarum quae in diebus dominicis toto anno celebrantur for five voices
• *Musica in introitus missarum quae in solemnitatibus sanctorum omnium toto anno celebrantur for five voices

Births

• March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music date unknown – Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.

Deaths

• March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet