1577 in music

Events

• July – Annibale Zoilo resigns from the Sistine Chapel Choir, due to ill health.
• 25 October – Pope Gregory XIII appoints Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Annibale Zoilo to prepare a corrected edition of the .

Publications

• Giovanni Animuccia – Third book of laudi (Rome: Antonio Blado), also includes "" (an instruction for encouraging and retaining the converted sinner)
• Joachim a Burck – , two volumes (of the lyrics of Ludwig Helmbold) (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a collection of hymns
• Eucharius Hoffmann – 24 for four, five, and six voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel), a collection of motets
• Paolo Isnardi – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Orlande de Lassus
• (Masses for various voices) (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
• (Several new pieces) for two voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
• Mattheus Le Maistre – for three voices (Dresden: Gimel Bergen)
• Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of ricercars for four voices (Perugia: Pietroiacomo Petrucci)

Classical music

• Johannes Eccard –

Births

• probable – Robert Jones, English lutenist and composer (d. 1617)

Deaths

• none listed

References