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1578 in music

Events

  • Autumn – Pope Gregory XIII's plans for a corrected edition of the is abandoned due to lack of funds.
  • Bernardino Bertolotti becomes a court musician of the Este family at Ferrara.

Publications

  • Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angleo Gardano)
  • Giammateo Asola – (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes two Magnificats
  • Lodovico Balbi – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Paolo Bellasio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Antoine de Bertrand
  • First book of for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a chanson cycle setting texts by Ronsard
  • Second book of for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Third book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Joachim a Burck
  • for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
  • (Sacred odes of Ludwig Helmbold of Mühlhausen), book two (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), a collection of hymn settings
  • Antonio de Cabezón – (Madrid: Francisco Sanchez), a collection of instrumental arrangements of pieces by various composers, published posthumously by his son Hernando
  • Fabrice Caietain – Second book of for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Ludwig Daser – for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the Passion
  • Johannes Eccard – (New German Songs) for four and five voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • George de la Hèle – 8 Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
  • Fernando de las Infantas
  • , book one, for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • , book two, for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giorgio Mainerio – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Tiburtio Massaino
  • First book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Claudio Merulo
  • First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Philippe de Monte – Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Andreas Pevernage – for six, seven, and eight voices (Douai: Jean Bogard)
  • Costanzo Porta – First book of masses for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

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