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1566 in music

List of years in music (table)
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  • Music
  • Philosophy

Events

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Publications

  • Simon Boyleau – Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
  • Joachim a Burck
    • Harmoniae sacrae for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
    • Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
  • Pierre Clereau – First and second books of odes de Ronsard for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
  • Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Claude Goudimel
    • Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
    • Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  • Jacquet of MantuaHimni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
    • Nouvelles chansons for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
  • Mattheus Le Maistre – Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
  • Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
  • Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaIl desiderio secondo libro

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