# 1585 in music
## Publications

* Felice Anerio
** First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
** Second book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
* Giammateo Asola
** Completorium romanum duae Beatae Virginis antiphonae, scilicet Salve Regina & Regina coeli (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also includes four other motets
** Hymni ad vespertina omnium solennitatum... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), in two parts
* Ippolito Baccusi – Second book of masses, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giovanni Bassano
** Fantasies for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
** Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.
* Girolamo Belli
** Psalmi ad vesperas cum hymnis et Magnificat for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of music for Vespers, including psalms, hymns, and a Magnificat
** First book of Sacrae cantiones for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
** Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Joan Brudieu – Madrigals for four voices (Barcelona: Hubert Gotard)
* Joachim a Burck – Dreissig geistliche Lieder auff die Fest durchs Jahr for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymn texts by Ludwig Helmbold
* Gioseppe Caimo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
* Giovanni Croce – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion in honorem nuptiarum D. Simonis Levskeri et Catharinae Joannis Pasauri filiae for six voicer (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
* Stefano Felis
** Second book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Giovanni Ferretti – Fifth book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Ruggiero Giovannelli – Gli sdruccioli, his first book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Grandi)
* Gioseffo Guami – First book of motets for five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Francisco Guerrero – Passio secundum Matthaeum et Joannem (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
* Paolo Isnardi – Omnes ad vesperas psalmi for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Jacobus de Kerle – Selectiorum aliquot modulorum for four, five, and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
* Orlande de Lassus
** Sacrae cantiones for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
** Cantica sacra for six and eight voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
** Lamentations for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
** Madrigals for five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach)
* Claude Le Jeune – Livre de mélanges (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin), a collection of chansons
* Luca Marenzio
** Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
** Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
** First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
** Second book of canzonette alla napolitana for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), his second collection of villanelle
** Third book of villanelle for three voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
* Rinaldo del Mel
** Third book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for six and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Benedetto Pallavicino – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Costanzo Porta – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

## Classical music

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa tu es pastor ovium

## Musical theatre

* Andrea Gabrielli – Choruses for the play Edippo Tiranno, performed in Vicenza

## Births

* October 8 (JC) – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)
* date unknown
** Johann Grabbe, composer (died 1655)
** Wojciech Dębołęcki, Franciscan friar, writer and composer (died 1646)
* probable – Domenico Allegri, singer and composer (died 1629)
** Andrea Falconieri, composer (died 1653)

## Deaths

* August 30 – Andrea Gabrieli, organist and composer (born c.1532)
* November 28 – Hernando Franco, composer (born 1532)
* December 3 – Thomas Tallis, church musician and composer (born 1505)