1582 in music
Publications
- Lodovico Agostini – Third book of madrigals, for six voices
- Blasius Amon – Liber sacratissimarum cantionum selectissimus
- Vittorio Baldini – Il lauro secco
- Paolo Bellasio – Second book of madrigals for five voices
- Antoine de Bertrand – Airs spirituels for four and five voices, contains hymns and canticles
- Jacobus de Kerle – 4 Masses for four and five voices
- Paschal de l'Estocart
- *First book of Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, and seven voices
- *First and Second book of octonaires de la vanité du monde for three, four, five, and six voices
- *Cent vingt et six quatrains du Sieur de Pibrac for two, three, four, five, and six voices, settings of poems by Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac
- Francisco Guerrero – Second book of masses
- Paolo Isnardi – Magnificats for four, five, and six voices
- Orlande de Lassus
- *Sacrae cantiones for five voices
- *Motets for six voices
- *Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae for four voices, a collection of readings from the Book of Job
- *Etliche außerleßne, kurtze, gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein for four voices, a collection of his chansons with new German texts
- Carolus Luython – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigaletti et napolitane for six voices
- Luca Marenzio – Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigals for three voices
- Claudio Monteverdi – Sacrae Cantiunculae for three voices
- Pomponio Nenna – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fourth book of masses
- ''Piae Cantiones''
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