Events Publications Lodovico Agostini – (The Tears of the Sinner), fourth book for six voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Felice Anerio – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amandino) Giammateo Asola Psalms (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Te Deum for four voices (Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Lodovico Balbi – Cappriccios for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giulio Belli – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Camillo Cortellini – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini) Jacobus Gallus – , volume 1 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus). Ruggiero Giovannelli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Simon Bar Jona Madelka – Seven Penitential Psalms for five voices (Altdorf: Nikolaus Knorr) Jacques Mauduit – for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Rinaldo del Mel – Second book of for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte – Eleventh book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Maria Nanino Motets for three and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Lucas Osiander the Elder – (Fifty sacred songs and psalms) for four voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of madrigals for four voices Nicola Parma – Sacrae cantiones..., book two (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Costanzo Porta – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giaches de Wert – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices Compositions Anthony Holborne – The Countess of Pembroke's Funerals Births January 20 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (died 1630) July 1 – Claudio Saracini, lutenist, singer and composer (died 1630) Probable Andrea Falconieri, composer (died 1653) Deaths August 27 – George de La Hèle, Franco-Flemish composer November – Bernardino de Figueroa, composer (born c.1510) Music 16th century in music Music by year