1557 in music

Events

• August 10 – A precursor of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band makes its first recorded appearance at the Battle of St. Quentin with "".
• Hoste da Reggio replaces Simon Boyleau as maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral.

Publications

• Martin Agricola – Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), music used at the Protestant school in Magdeburg, published posthumously
• Jacques Arcadelt – 3 Masses (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Filippo Azzaiolo (published anonymously) – , for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Jacob Clemens non Papa
• Second book of masses: for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Third book of masses: for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Fourth book of masses: for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Fifth book of masses: for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Sixth book of masses: for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• IIII for three voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), settings of Psalms and other hymns in Dutch, published posthumously
• Pierre Clereau – for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
• Claude Goudimel – Third book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for four and five voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
• Orlande de Lassus – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
• Jean Maillard
• for eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a setting of the Credo
• for five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• Jan Nasco
• Canzonas and madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
• Dominique Phinot – for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
• Francesco Portinaro – Third book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), also includes dialogs for seven and eight voices
• Cipriano de Rore
• Second Book of Madrigals in Four Parts
• Fourth Book of Madrigals in Five Parts

Births

• February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, writer and nobleman (d. 1622)
• September 16 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (d. 1627)
• date unknown – Giovanni Croce, composer (d. 1609)
• probable – Thomas Morley, composer, theorist, editor and organist (d. 1602)

Deaths

• April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco, composer, organist and poet (b. 1524)
• probable
• Thomas Crecquillon, Franco-Flemish composer (b. 1505; possibly plague)
• Nicholas Ludford, composer of masses (b. c. 1485; possibly influenza)

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