1580 in music
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Events
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.
Bands formed
- The {{lang|it|Concerto delle donne}} is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.
Popular music
- First recorded appearance of the English ballad Greensleeves.{{cite book|first=Frank|last=Kidson|title=English Folk-Song and Dance|publisher=Read Books|year=2008|page=26|isbn=978-1-4437-7289-1}}
Publications
- Giammateo Asola – Second book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also includes a Requiem mass for two choirs
- Lodovico Balbi – Masses for four and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Anthoine de Bertrand
- First book of {{lang|fr|sonets chrestiens mis en musique}} for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Second book of {{lang|fr|sonets chrestiens mis en musique}} for four voices (Senlis: Simon Goulart; Lyon: Charles Pesnot)
- Joachim a Burck
- {{lang|la|Officium Sacrosanctae Coenae Dominicae, super cantiunculam: Quam mirabilis ex primo libro odarum compositum}} for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- {{lang|la|Hebdomas divinitus instituta}} for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch)
- Girolamo Diruta – {{lang|it|Il primo libro de contrapunti, sopra il canto fermo delle antifone delle feste principali de tutto l'anno}} for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Placido Falconio
- {{lang|la|Turbarum voces}} (Voices of the crowd) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- {{lang|la|Voces Christi}} (Voices of Christ) for three voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of motets
- {{lang|la|Sacra Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae}} for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a collection of responsories for Holy Week
- {{lang|la|Threni Hieremiae prophetae, una cum psalmis, Benedictus et Miserere}} for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a setting of Lamentations
- Andrea Gabrieli – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Jacobus Gallus
- First book of masses for seven and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for five voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- First book of masses for four voice (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
- Mikołaj Gomółka – {{lang|pl|Melodiae ná psałterz polski}} for four voices (Kraków: Lazarus), a Polish psalter
- Eucharius Hoffmann – {{lang|de|Geistlicher Lieder in irer gewöhnlichen Melodey auff Villanellen art}} for four voices, part one (Rostock: Augustin Ferber)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giorgio Mainerio – {{lang|la|Sacra cantica Beatissimae Mariae Virginis omnitonum}} for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of Magnificats
- Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte
- Fourth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Eighth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: hiers of Girolamo Scotto)
- Leonhard Päminger – {{lang|la|Quartus tomus cantionem ecclestiacarum...}}, published posthumously in Nuremberg
- Costanzo Porta – {{lang|la|Liber quinquaginta duorum motectorum}} (Book of Fifty-two Motets) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Johann Wanning – {{lang|la|Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae}} (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)
Births
- July 6 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
- date unknown – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, German-Italian performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music (d. 1651)
- probable
- Michael East, English organist and composer (d. 1648)
- Thomas Ford, English composer (d. 1648)
- Adriana Basile, Italian composer (d. 1640)
Deaths
- January 18 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517)
- April 1 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (b. c.1510)
- September 15 – Geert van Turnhout, Flemish composer (b. c.1530)
- November 30 – Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer (b. c.1530)