1579 in music

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Events

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) – Ein christlich Lied... (Mühlhausen: George Hantzsch)
Johannes de Cleve – 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 – Psalmodia vespertina for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
Stefano Felis – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Eucharius Hoffmann – Vyff geistlike olde Ostergesenge for four voices (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
Fernando de las Infantas
- Sacrarum varii styli cantionum tituli Spiritus sancti, book three, for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- 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 – Bicinia nova (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
Orlando di Lasso – 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
- 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