# 1580 in music
## 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.

## 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
* Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Jacobus Gallus
** First book of masses for seven and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
** First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
** First book of masses for five voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
** First book of masses for four voice (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
* Mikołaj Gomółka – Melodiae ná psałterz polski for four voices (Kraków: Lazarus), a Polish psalter
* Eucharius Hoffmann – Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art for four voices, part one (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giorgio Mainerio – Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Magnificats
* Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte
** Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
** Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: hiers of Girolamo Scotto)
* Leonhard Päminger – Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum..., published posthumously in Nuremberg
* Costanzo Porta – Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum (Book of Fifty-two Motets) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* 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)