1580 in music
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Events
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.
Bands formed
- The Concerto delle donne is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.
Popular music
- First recorded appearance of the English ballad Greensleeves.[1]
Publications
- Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
- Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Anthoine de Bertrand
- First book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Second book of sonets chrestiens mis en musique for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Joachim a Burck
- Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- Hebdomas divinitus instituta for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Girolamo Diruta – Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Placido Falconio
- Turbarum voces (Voices of the crowd) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Voces Christi (Voices of Christ) for three voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of responsories for Holy Week
- Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a setting of Lamentations
- Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Leonhard Päminger – Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
- Johann Wanning – Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)
Births
- July 6 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
- date unknown – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, German-Italian performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music (d. 1651)
- probable
- Michael East, English organist and composer (d. 1648)
- Thomas Ford, English composer (d. 1648)
- Adriana Basile, Italian composer (d. 1640)
Deaths
- January 18 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517)
- April 1 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (b. c.1510)
- September 15 – Geert van Turnhout, Flemish composer (b. c.1530)
- November 30 – Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer (b. c.1530)
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References
- Kidson, Frank (2008). English Folk-Song and Dance. Read Books. p. 26. ISBN 1-4437-7289-5.
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