1565 in music

Events

 * Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
 * 5 July – Gioseffo Zarlino succeeds Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
 * Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan.
 * Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.

Secular

 * Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for three voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico), also includes some motets and spiritual madrigals
 * Bálint Bakfark – Harmoniarum musicarum in usum testudinis factarum, book 1 (Kraków: Lazarus Andrea), a collection of lute tablature
 * Gioseffo Guami – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme
 * Pietro Taglia – First book of madrigals

Sacred

 * Francesco Cellavenia – First book of motets for five voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
 * Paolo Ferrarese – Passiones, Lamentationes, Responsoria, Benedictus, Miserere, multaque alia devotissima cantica ad offitium Hebdomadae Sanctae pertinentia (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Andrea Gabrieli – First book of sacrae cantiones for five voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Claude Goudimel – Sixth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Modulorum for four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices, vol. 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of motets
 * Second book of Sacrae cantiones perornatae for five and six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Jean Maillard – Motets for four, five, six, and seven voices, volumes 1 & 2 (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Paulus Melissus – Historia de navicula vehente Christum et periclitante in mari for four voices
 * Diego Ortiz – Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos, Venice

Births

 * August 5 – Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
 * date unknown
 * Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (d. 1641)
 * Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (d. 1621)
 * Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (d. 1627)
 * probable
 * Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628)
 * Michael Cavendish, English court composer (d. 1628)
 * Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
 * Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (d. 1622)
 * Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646)
 * Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1638)

Deaths

 * August – Jacques Buus, organist and composer (b. 1500)
 * mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (b. 1515/1516)
 * date unknown – David Köler, German composer (b. c. 1532)