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1564 in music
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1564 music
Events
Claude Le Jeune comes to Paris and begins to associate with Huguenots.
Richard Farrant is appointed master of the children of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Publications
Paolo Aretino – First and second books of responsories for Holy Week (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto)
Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers
Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
Gioseppe Caimo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
Claude Goudimel – fr Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David nouvellement mis en musique for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), homophonic harmonizations of the melodies from the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter
Philibert Jambe de Fer – fr Les 150 Psaumes de David à 4 et 5 voix (Lyon: Antoine de Cercia & Pierre de Mia)
Orlande de Lassus
First book of motets for five and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Fourth book of chansons for four and five voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
Claude Le Jeune – 10 fr pseaumes de David for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto)
Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Valerio Salviano & fratelli)
Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina
Annibale Padovano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Gioan Paien – First book of madrigals for two voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of Motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Classical music
Philibert Jambe de Fer – Music for the arrival of King Charles IX of France
Births
October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (d. 1612)
date unknown – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (d. 1621)
Deaths
October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, composer of the Franco-Flemish School (b. c. 1510)
date unknown
Jacques Brunel, organist and composerWalker Paul Fugue in the Sixteenth Century 17 November 2020 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-005620-9 244 https://books.google.com/books?id=uIkIEAAAQBAJ&dq=Jacques+Brunel+1564&pg=PA244 en
Purandara Dasa, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1484)
References
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