1580 in music
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Popular music
Publications
- Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices, also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
- Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices
- Anthoine de Bertrand
- *First book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices
- *Second book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices
- Joachim a Burck
- *Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum for four voices
- *Hebdomas divinitus instituta for four voices
- Girolamo Diruta – Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno for five voices
- Placido Falconio
- *Turbarum voces for four voices, a collection of motets
- *Voces Christi for three voices, a collection of motets
- *Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae for four voices, a collection of responsories for Holy Week
- *Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere for four voices, a setting of Lamentations
- Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices
- Jacobus Gallus
- *First book of masses for seven and eight voices
- *First book of masses for six voices
- *First book of masses for five voices
- *First book of masses for four voice
- Mikołaj Gomółka – Melodiae ná psałterz polski for four voices, a Polish psalter
- Eucharius Hoffmann – Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art for four voices, part one
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Giorgio Mainerio – Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum for six voices, a collection of Magnificats
- Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices
- Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices
- Philippe de Monte
- *Fourth book of madrigals for six voices
- *Eighth book of madrigals for five voices
- *Ninth book of madrigals for five voices
- Leonhard Päminger – Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
- Costanzo Porta – Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices
- Johann Wanning – Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae
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