1460s in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1460s.
Events
1464
- 22 February – Henry Abyngdon receives a Bachelor of Music at Cambridge, the first recorded musical degree{{cite web |title=Abyngton, Henry (ABNN463H) |url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=ABNN463H&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |website=A Cambridge Alumni Database |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=22 July 2020}}
1465
- May – Henry Abyngdon is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal in London
- September – Antoine Busnois is appointed master of the choirboys at Église Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers{{cite book |editor1-last=Higgins |editor1-first=Paula |title=Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-816406-8 |page=552}}
1467
- Antoine Busnois is employed at the court of Count Charles of Charolais before he becomes Duke of Burgundy{{cite book |last1=Montagna |first1=Gerald |editor1-last=Fenlon |editor1-first=Iain |editor1-link=Iain Fenlon |title=Early Music History 7: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music |date=1987 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-74654-0 |page=121 |edition=2009}}
1468
- Anna Inglese and her entourage are hired by Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan to devise and perform entertainments for his marriage to Bona of Savoy{{cite book |title=Archivio Storico Lombardo: Indici Anni I - XX |date=1893 |publisher=Societa Storica Lombarda |location=Milan |page=107}}
Compositions
1464
- May – Robert Morton writes the first known setting of {{lang|fr|L'homme armé}}{{cite journal |last1=Taruskin |first1=Richard |title=Antoine Busnoys and the "L'Homme armé" Tradition |journal=Journal of the American Musicological Society |date=1986 |volume=39 |issue=2|pages=255–293 |doi=10.2307/831531 |jstor=831531 }}
Manuscripts
1460
- Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier, including compositions by Philippe Basiron{{RISM|451509099}} Der Wolfenbütteler Chansonnier
Births
1468
- probable
- William Cornysh, English composer (d. 1523)
Deaths
1460
- 20 September – Gilles Binchois, Burgundian composer (b. c.1400){{cite encyclopedia |last1=Fallows |first1=David |entry=Binchois [Binchoys], Gilles de Bins [Binch, Binche] dit |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03094}}
1466