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Overview of the events of 1581 in music
Events
Publications
Music
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Lodovico Agostini – L'Echo et enigmi musicali for six voices, book 2 (Venice: Alessandro Gardano)
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Costanzo Antegnati – Sacrae cantiones (motets) for four voices (
Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
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Giammateo Asola – Secundus liber in quo reliquae missae octonis compositae tonis (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Joachim a Burck – Threnodia (Komm wenn du wilt Herr Jesu Christ) for four voices (Frankfurt: Nikolaus Basse)
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Severin Cornet
- Cantiones musicae for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp:
Christophe Plantin)
- Chansons françoyses for five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
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Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: heirs of
Girolamo Scotto)
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Paolo Isnardi
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
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Orlande de Lassus
- Masses for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach)
- Book of villanelle, moresche, and other songs for four, five, six, and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
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Giovanni de Macque – Madrigaletti et Napolitane for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Luca Marenzio
- First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Rinaldo del Mel – First book of motets for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Philippe de Monte
- First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Fourth book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Giovanni Maria Nanino & Annibal Stabile – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of madrigals for five voices
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Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
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Christoph Praetorius – Fröliche und liebliche Ehrnlieder for four voices (Wittenberg: Matthäus Welack), in two volumes
Other
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Fabritio Caroso – Il Ballerino, Italian dance manual, containing much dance music
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Vincenzo Galilei – Dialogo della musica antica, et della moderna (Dialogue Concerning Ancient and Modern Music)
Classical music
Births
Deaths