1564 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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)
• Philibert Jambe de Fer – Les 150 Psaumes de David à 4 et 5 voix
• Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Madrigals for five voices
• Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina
• 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 (died 1612)
• date unknown – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (died 1621)

Deaths

• October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, composer of the Franco-Flemish School (born c.1510)
• date unknown
  • Jacques Brunel, organist and composer
  • Purandara Dasa, composer of Carnatic music (born 1484)