1557 in music

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Events

August 10 – A precursor of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band makes its first recorded appearance at the Battle of St. Quentin with "drumme and phife".
Hoste da Reggio replaces Simon Boyleau as maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral.

Publications

Martin Agricola – Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), music used at the Protestant school in Magdeburg, published posthumously
Jacques Arcadelt – 3 Masses (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Filippo Azzaiolo (published anonymously) – Villotte del fiore: il primo libro de villotte alla padoana con alcune napolitane, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Jacob Clemens non Papa
- Second book of masses: Missa Virtute magna for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Third book of masses: Missa En espoir for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Fourth book of masses: Missa Ecce quam bonum for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Fifth book of masses: Missa Gaude lux donatione for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Sixth book of masses: Missa Caro mea for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
- Souterliedekens IIII for three voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), settings of Psalms and other hymns in Dutch, published posthumously
Pierre Clereau – Missa Virginis Mariae for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
Claude Goudimel – Third book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for four and five voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
Orlande de Lassus – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
Jean Maillard
- Patrem for eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a setting of the Credo
- Missa Virginis Mariae for five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jan Nasco
- Canzonas and madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Dominique Phinot – Missa Si bona suscepimus for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
Francesco Portinaro – Third book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), also includes dialogs for seven and eight voices
Cipriano de Rore
- Second Book of Madrigals in Four Parts
- Fourth Book of Madrigals in Five Parts

Classical music

Births

February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, writer and nobleman (d. 1622)
September 16 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (d. 1627)
date unknown – Giovanni Croce, composer (d. 1609)
probable – Thomas Morley, composer, theorist, editor and organist (d. 1602)

Deaths

April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco, composer, organist and poet (b. 1524)^[1]
probable
- Thomas Crecquillon, Franco-Flemish composer (b. 1505; possibly plague)
- Nicholas Ludford, composer of masses (b. c. 1485; possibly influenza)^[2]

References

^ Thomas Frederick Crane (1920). Italian Social Customs of the Sixteenth Century: And Their Influence on the Literatures of Europe. Yale University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780598508973.
^ The Musical Quarterly. G. Schirmer. 1958. p. 197.

[1] Thomas Frederick Crane (1920). Italian Social Customs of the Sixteenth Century: And Their Influence on the Literatures of Europe. Yale University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780598508973.

[2] The Musical Quarterly. G. Schirmer. 1958. p. 197.

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