1510s in music

The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510–1519) involved some significant events.

Events

 * 1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.
 * 1517:
 * March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.
 * April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.
 * June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".
 * Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed informator choralium by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.
 * 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

Publications

 * 1511:
 * Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
 * Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
 * Sebastian Virdung – Musica getutscht und angezogen, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
 * 1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
 * 1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses (Fossombrone: Ottaviano Petrucci), also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue (Quarti toni)
 * 1517:
 * Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig).
 * Sebastian z Felsztyna – Opusculum musicae compilatum (Kraków: Johann Haller).
 * 1518:
 * The Medici Codex (manuscript)
 * Franchinus Gaffurius – De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus. Milan.

Compositions

 * 1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.
 * 1513: Heinrich Isaac – Optime pastor, motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
 * 1514: Costanzo Festa – Quis dabit oculis, funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
 * 1519: Adrian Willaert – Quid non ebrietas designat, setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices

1510

 * Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist (died 1565)
 * Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566)
 * probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561)
 * probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)

1511

 * date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)

1513

 * February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer (died 1574)
 * May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician (died 1574)

1516

 * probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)

1517

 * January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist (died 1580)
 * January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)

Deaths

 * 1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440)
 * 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)