1588 in music
Events
Publications
- Blasius Amon – 4 Masses
- Giammateo Asola
- *Masses for eight voices, 2 vols.
- *4 Masses for five voices
- *Lamentations
- Ippolito Baccusi – First book of masses for four voices
- Giovanni Bassano – Il fiore dei capricci musicali for four voices, a collection of instrumental pieces
- William Byrd – Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie for five voices
- Giovanni Croce – First book of canzonettas for four voices
- Giovanni Dragoni – First book of villanelle for five voices
- Placido Falconio – Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices
- Stefano Felis – First book of masses for six voices
- Andrea Gabrieli – Chori in musica sopra li chori della tragedia di Edippo Tiranno, incidental music from a 1585 play, published posthumously
- Bartholomäus Gesius – Historia vom Leiden und Sterben unsers Herren und Heilandes Jesu Christi wie sie uns der Evangelista Johannes im 18 und 19 Cap. beschrieben for two, three, four, and five voices
- Ruggiero Giovannelli – First book of villanelle et arie alla napolitana for three voices
- Gioseffo Guami – Lamentations for six voices
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
- *Responsoria hebdomadae sanctae for four and six voices
- *Lamentations for four voices
- Orlande de Lassus
- *Motets for four and eight voices
- *Motets for five voices
- *Motets for six voices
- Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for four, five, and six voices
- Rinaldo del Mel
- *Sacrae cantiones for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices
- *Madrigals for six voices
- Philippe de Monte – Thirteenth book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of Lamentations
- Benedetto Pallavicino – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
- Giuliano Paratico – Second book of canzonettas for three voices
- Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Motets for five voices
- Orfeo Vecchi – Masses for five voices
- Giaches de Wert – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices
- Nicholas Yonge – Musica Transalpina,, a collection of Italian madrigals with English translated lyrics, credited with sparking the English Madrigal School
- The Walsingham Consort Books are copied, probably by Daniel Bacheler, who was only 15 or 16 years old at the time and contributed seven of his own pieces to this collection for broken consort
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