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