Events Thomas Weelkes becomes organist at Winchester College. The "first documented European music education" in the United States begins in a colony in New Mexico, founded by a group of Spanish friars accompanying Juan de Oñate. Publications Gregor Aichinger – (Innsbruck: Johannes Agricola), a collection of antiphons, hymns, Magnificats, and litanies for the Office of the Blessed Virgin, for three voices Felice Anerio – Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Giovanni Artusi – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Giammateo Asola (Introits for the Sundays of the whole year) for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) (Introits and Alleluias for all the solemnities of the year...) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline, including an Alma Redemptoris Mater and an Ave Regina caelorum Adriano Banchieri Psalms for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), includes pieces for Vespers for the entire year , second book for three voices (Venice: Ricciardi Amadino), a madrigal comedy Giovanni Bassano – for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Giulio Belli – for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), Psalms for Vespers for the whole year, also includes two Magnificats and a Te Deum Michael Cavendish – Ayres in Tabletorie Scipione Dentice – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace) Johannes Eccard for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for five voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song for four voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song Giles Farnaby – [20] Canzonets to Fowre Voyces with a Song of Eight Parts (London: Peter Short), with a dedicatory poem in Latin by Anthony Holborne Bartholomäus Gesius – (Marian hymns) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), also includes a New Year's motet for eight voices Claude Le Jeune – (La Rochelle: Hierosme Haultin), a collection of twelve psalms for two, three, four, five, six, and seven voices Luzzasco Luzzaschi – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Luca Marenzio – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of masses for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Claudio Merulo – , Book 1 (Rome: Simone Verovio) Philippe de Monte – Nineteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Peter Philips – Madrigals for eight voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse) Orfeo Vecchi Second book of masses for five voices