1566 in music

Events

 * none listed

Publications

 * Simon Boyleau – Modulationes in Magnificat ad omnes tropos for four, five, and six voices (Milan: Cesare Pozzo)
 * Joachim a Burck
 * Harmoniae sacrae for five voices (Nuremberg: Ulrich Neuber & Johann vom Berg, Erben)
 * Song in honor of the wedding of Johann Gunther and Anna Antonia (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
 * Pierre Clereau – First and second books of odes de Ronsard for three voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), settings of poems by Pierre de Ronsard, later reprinted in one volume
 * Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Claude Goudimel
 * Seventh book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Eighth book of psalms in the form of motets for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
 * Francisco Guerrero – First book of masses for four and five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
 * Jacquet of Mantua – Himni vesperorum totius anni for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of Vesper hymns, published posthumously
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Fourth book of motets for six and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Nouvelles chansons for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
 * Mattheus Le Maistre – Geistliche und Weltliche Teutsche Geseng (Sacred and Secular German Songs) for four and five voices (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
 * Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Bethanio)
 * Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto (two volumes)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Il desiderio secondo libro
 * Costanzo Porta
 * Musica in introitus missarum quae in diebus dominicis toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)
 * Musica in introitus missarum quae in solemnitatibus sanctorum omnium toto anno celebrantur for five voices (Venice: Claudio da Correggio & Fausto Betanio)

Births

 * March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
 * date unknown – Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.

Deaths

 * March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (b. 1510)
 * October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (b. 1525)