1575 in music

Events

 * January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 * The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 * First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.
 * Tomás Luis de Victoria is ordained a priest.

Publications

 * Elias Nicolaus Ammerbach – Ein new künstlich Tabulaturbuch (Leipzig: Johann Beyer for Dietrich Gerlach), a book of 40 motet intabulations and one praeambulum by various composers.
 * Costanzo Antegnati – First book of sacrae cantiones (motets) for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Jean d'Arras publishes a chanson.
 * Giammateo Asola – Falsi bordoni per cantar salmi for four voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Vincenzo Bellavere – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Joachim a Burck – Zwantzig deutsche Liedlein for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
 * William Byrd & Thomas Tallis – Cantiones Sacrae
 * Ippolito Chamaterò – Magnificats for 8, 9, and 12 voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Giovanni Dragoni
 * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Placido Falconio – Introitus et Alleluia per omnes festivitates totius anni for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, sons), including the first appearance of basso seguente
 * Giovanni Ferretti – Second book of canzoni alla napolitana for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Andrea Gabrieli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano, figliuoli)
 * Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for five and six voices (Munich: Adam Berg), also includes hymns
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Patrocinium musices, Part 4 (Munich: Adam Berg), a collection of sacred music for four and five voices
 * Motets for three voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
 * Philippe de Monte
 * Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: sons of Antonio Gardano)
 * Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard for five, six, and seven voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Antwerp: Jean Bellère)
 * Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Motets for six voices
 * Antonio Pace – First and second book of madrigals for six voices published in Venice by Giuseppe Guglielmo
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motettorum liber tertius (Third Book of Motets)
 * Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Fourth book of napolitane for three voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Costanzo Porta – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae for eight voices (Venice: Giorgio Angelieri)
 * Antonio Scandello – Newe schöne ausserlesene geistliche deudsche Lieder, published in Dresden.
 * Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del Serenissimo Ducca di Baviera, an anthology of music by court composers from Munich, is published.
 * Kurtzer Ausszug der Christlichen und Catholischen Geseng, a defense of conservative music during the Reformation, is published.

Births

 * December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, lutenist and composer (d. 1631)
 * date unknown
 * John Bennet, English composer (d. c. 1614).
 * Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (d. 1641)
 * Christoph Strauss, cantor, organist and composer (d. 1631)
 * probable
 * Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (d. c. 1620)
 * Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, viol player and composer (d. 1628)
 * Ennemond Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (d. 1651)
 * Giovanni Priuli, composer (d. 1626)
 * Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer (d. 1647)

Deaths

 * March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Venetian organist and composer (b. 1527)
 * April 17 – Johann Bertram, German composer, kantor, and theologian
 * July 14 – Richard Taverner, writer, translator, politician and composer of church music (b. 1505)
 * August 16 – Francesco Adriani, Italian composer
 * probable – Giacomo Gorzanis, Italian lutenist
 * possible (alternatively 1576) – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1511; possibly plague)