1577 in music

Events

• July – Annibale Zoilo resigns from the Sistine Chapel Choir, due to ill health.
• 25 October – Pope Gregory XIII appoints Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Annibale Zoilo to prepare a corrected edition of the Graduale Romanum.

Publications

• Giovanni Animuccia – Third book of laudi, also includes "una instrutione per promovere e conservare il peccatore convertito"
• Joachim a Burck – Lyricorum Ludovici Helmboldi Mulhusini, two volumes, a collection of hymns
• Eucharius Hoffmann – 24 Cantiones for four, five, and six voices, a collection of motets
• Paolo Isnardi – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Orlande de Lassus
• *Missae variis concentibus ornatae
• *Novae aliquot for two voices
• Mattheus Le Maistre – Schöne und auserlesene Deudsche und Lateinische Geistliche Gesenge for three voices
• Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of ricercars for four voices

Classical music

• Johannes Eccard – Crepundia sacra Helmboldi

Births

• probable – Robert Jones, English lutenist and composer

Deaths

• ''none listed''