1568 in music

Events

 * Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
 * Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
 * Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
 * Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

Publications

 * Giovanni Animuccia – Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
 * Joachim a Burck – Die deutsche Passion (Wittenberg: Johann Schwertel)
 * Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
 * Pierre Certon – Missa Christus resurgens for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
 * Baldassare Donato – Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Vincenzo Galilei – Fronimo Dialogo (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.
 * Paolo Isnardi
 * Masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Orlande de Lassus – Selectissimae cantiones for four, five, six, and more voices (Nuremberg: Theodor Gerlach)
 * Claudio Merulo – Messe d'intavolatura d'organo, book four (Venice), a collection of masses arranged for organ
 * Francesco Portinaro
 * Le vergine for six voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
 * Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Cipriano de Rore
 * Gli amorosi concenti, a posthumous collection of madrigals
 * Il quinto libro de madrigali, posthumous second, expanded edition (first edition: 1566)

Births

 * February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer (d. 1643)
 * September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
 * date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (d. 1635)

Deaths

 * June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture (b. 1522; executed)
 * October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1514/1515)
 * November 12 – Georg Forster, composer (b. 1510)