List of years in music (table)
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  • Lodovico Agostini - Musica di... sopra le rime bizarre di M. Andrea Calmo, & altri autori for four voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
  • Giovanni Animuccia – First book of masses (Rome: Valerio Dorico & Luigi Dorico)
  • Jacques Arcadelt
    • Third book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
    • Fourth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
    • Fifth book of chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Joachim a BurckDecades IIII. Sententiosorum versuum celebrium virorum germaniae (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • Giovanni Battista Conforti – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice), edited by Claudio Merulo
  • Nicolao Dorati – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Giovanni FerrettiCanzone alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giulio Fiesco – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice)
  • Jacquet of MantuaOrationes complures ad officium Hebdomadae sanctae pertinentes for four and five voices (Venice, 1567), a collection of sacred music for Holy Week, published posthumously
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Magnificat octo tonorum for six, five, and four voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
    • Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
    • Neue teütsche Liedlein for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
  • Claudio MeruloRicercari d’Intavolatura d’Organo, Libro primo
  • Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Giovanni Domenico da NolaIl primo libro delle villanelle alla napolitana (The First Book of Neapolitan style villanellas) for three and four voices (Venice: Claudio Merulo & Fausto Betanio)
  • Annibale Padovano – First book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of masses (Rome: heirs of Valerio & Luigi Dorico)

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