1510s in music

• 1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.Edgar H. Sparks and Bernadette Nelson, "Bauldeweyn [Balbun, Balduin, Bauldewijn, Baulduin, Baulduvin, Valdovin], Noel [Noe, Natalis]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• 1517:
• March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, "Finck, Heinrich", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.Robert Stevenson, "García de Basurto, Juan", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".Howard Mayer Brown and Giulio Ongaro, "Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro di", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed {{lang|la|informator choralium}} by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.Manfred Schuler, "Dietrich [Dieterich, Theodericus, Theodorici], Sixt [Sixtus, Xistus]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

{{See also|List of publications by Ottaviano Petrucci}}

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• 1511:
• Franciscus Bossinensis – {{lang|it|Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo}} (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
• Arnolt Schlick – {{lang|de|Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten}}, the first treatise on organ-making in German
• Sebastian Virdung – {{lang|de|Musica getutscht und angezogen}}, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
• 1512: Arnolt Schlick – {{lang|de|Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang}}, a collection of organ and lute pieces
• 1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses (Fossombrone: Ottaviano Petrucci), also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue (Quarti toni)
• 1517:
• Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig).
• Sebastian z Felsztyna – {{lang|la|Opusculum musicae compilatum}} (Kraków: Johann Haller).
• 1518:
• The Medici Codex (manuscript)
• Franchinus Gaffurius – {{lang|la|De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus}}. Milan.

• 1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes {{lang|la|Missa de Beata Virgine}}, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}
• 1513: Heinrich Isaac – {{lang|la|Optime pastor}}, motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
• 1514: Costanzo Festa – {{lang|la|Quis dabit oculis}}, funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
• 1519: Adrian Willaert – {{lang|la|Quid non ebrietas designat}}, setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices

• Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist (died 1565)
• Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566)
• probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561)
• probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)

• date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)

• February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer (died 1574)
• May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician (died 1574)

• probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)

• January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist (died 1580)
• January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)

• 1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440)
• 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)

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