1581 in music
Events
Publications
Music
- Lodovico Agostini – L'Echo et enigmi musicali for six voices, book 2
- Costanzo Antegnati – Sacrae cantiones for four voices
- Giammateo Asola – Secundus liber in quo reliquae missae octonis compositae tonis
- Joachim a Burck – Threnodia for four voices
- Severin Cornet
- *Cantiones musicae for five, six, seven, and eight voices
- *Chansons françoyses for five, six, and eight voices
- *Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices
- Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for four voices
- Paolo Isnardi
- *Second book of masses for five voices
- *Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Orlande de Lassus
- *Masses for four and five voices
- *Book of villanelle, moresche, and other songs for four, five, six, and eight voices
- Giovanni de Macque – Madrigaletti et Napolitane for six voices
- Luca Marenzio
- *First book of madrigals for six voices
- *Second book of madrigals for five voices
- Rinaldo del Mel – First book of motets for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices
- Philippe de Monte
- *First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices
- *Tenth book of madrigals for five voices
- *Fourth book of madrigals for four voices
- Giovanni Maria Nanino & Annibal Stabile – Madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of madrigals for five voices
- Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Christoph Praetorius – Fröliche und liebliche Ehrnlieder for four voices, in two volumes
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Classical music
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