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1579 music
Publications
Costanzo Antegnati – First book of masses for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
Ippolito Baccusi
First book of motets, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazatto)
Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Joachim a Burck (March 21) – de Ein christlich Lied... (Mühlhausen: George Hantzsch)
Johannes de Cleve – la Cantiones seu harmoniae sacrae for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Augsburg: Philipp Ulhard & Andreas Reinheckel)
Nicolao Dorati – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giovanni Dragoni – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Placido Falconio – la Psalmodia vespertina for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
Stefano Felis – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Eucharius Hoffmann – de Vyff geistlike olde Ostergesenge for four voices (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
Fernando de las Infantas
la Sacrarum varii styli cantionum tituli Spiritus sancti, book three, for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
la Plura modulationum genera (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a book of counterpoint exercises
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Ondřej Chrysoponus Jevíčský – la Bicinia nova (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)https://www.czechmusicquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Czech-Music-Quarterly-2015-4.pdf Czech Music Quarterly 31 en
Orlando di Lasso – it Corona di Madrigali
Giovanni de Macque – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte
la Missa Benedicta es for six voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
Fifth book of motets for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Births
date unknown – John Amner, composer and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral (died 1641)
probable – Melchior Franck, composer (died 1639)
Deaths
date unknown – Miguel de Fuenllana, composer (born c.1500)
probable – David Peebles, composer
References
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