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1585 music
Publications
Felice Anerio
First book of it madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
Second book of it madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
Giammateo Asola
la Completorium romanum duae Beatae Virginis antiphonae, scilicet Salve Regina & Regina coeli (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also includes four other motets
la Hymni ad vespertina omnium solennitatum... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), in two parts
Ippolito Baccusi – Second book of masses, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Giovanni Bassano
Fantasies for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
it Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.
Girolamo Belli
la Psalmi ad vesperas cum hymnis et Magnificat for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of music for Vespers, including psalms, hymns, and a Magnificat
First book of la Sacrae cantiones for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Joan Brudieu – Madrigals for four voices (Barcelona: Hubert Gotard)
Joachim a Burck – de Dreissig geistliche Lieder auff die Fest durchs Jahr for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymn texts by Ludwig Helmbold
Gioseppe Caimo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
Giovanni Croce – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Johannes Eccard – el Epithalamion la in honorem nuptiarum D. Simonis Levskeri et Catharinae Joannis Pasauri filiae for six voicer (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Stefano Felis
Second book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Giovanni Ferretti – Fifth book of it canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Ruggiero Giovannelli – it Gli sdruccioli, his first book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Grandi)
Gioseffo Guami – First book of motets for five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Francisco Guerrero – la Passio secundum Matthaeum et Joannem (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
Paolo Isnardi – la Omnes ad vesperas psalmi for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Jacobus de Kerle – la Selectiorum aliquot modulorum for four, five, and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
Orlande de Lassus
la Sacrae cantiones for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
la Cantica sacra for six and eight voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Lamentations for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Madrigals for five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach)
Claude Le Jeune – fr Livre de mélanges (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin), a collection of chansons
Luca Marenzio
Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
Second book of it canzonette alla napolitana for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), his second collection of it villanelle
Third book of it villanelle for three voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
Rinaldo del Mel
Third book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for six and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Benedetto Pallavicino – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Costanzo Porta – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Classical music
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa tu es pastor ovium
Musical theatre
Andrea Gabrielli – Choruses for the play Edippo Tiranno, performed in Vicenza
Births
October 8 (JC) – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)
date unknown
Johann Grabbe, composer (died 1655)
Wojciech Dębołęcki, Franciscan friar, writer and composer (died 1646)
probable – Domenico Allegri, singer and composer (died 1629)
Andrea Falconieri, composer (died 1653)
Deaths
August 30 – Andrea Gabrieli, organist and composer (born c.1532)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrea-Gabrieli Andrea Gabrieli Encyclopædia Britannica 10 December 2025
November 28 – Hernando Franco, composer (born 1532)
December 3 – Thomas Tallis, church musician and composer (born 1505)
References
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