1585 in music

Overview of the events of 1585 in music
Overview of the events of 1585 in music
List of years in music (table)
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  • 1576
  • 1577
  • 1578
  • 1579
  • 1580
  • 1581
  • 1582
  • 1583
  • 1584
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  • 1586
  • 1587
  • 1588
  • 1589
  • 1590
  • 1591
  • 1592
  • 1593
  • 1594
  • 1595 …
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Events

Publications

  • Felice Anerio
    • First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
    • Second book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
  • Giammateo Asola
  • Ippolito Baccusi – Second book of masses, for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Giovanni Bassano
    • Fantasies for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
    • Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.
  • Girolamo Belli
    • Psalmi ad vesperas cum hymnis et Magnificat for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of music for Vespers, including psalms, hymns, and a Magnificat
    • First book of Sacrae cantiones for six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Joan Brudieu – Madrigals for four voices (Barcelona: Hubert Gotard)
  • Joachim a Burck – Dreissig geistliche Lieder auff die Fest durchs Jahr for four voices (Mühlhausen: Georg Hantzsch), settings of hymn texts by Ludwig Helmbold
  • Gioseppe Caimo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
  • Giovanni Croce – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion in honorem nuptiarum D. Simonis Levskeri et Catharinae Joannis Pasauri filiae for six voicer (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
  • Stefano Felis
    • Second book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Giovanni Ferretti – Fifth book of canzoni alla napolitana for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Ruggiero Giovannelli – Gli sdruccioli, his first book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Grandi)
  • Gioseffo Guami – First book of motets for five, six, seven, eight, and ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Francisco Guerrero – Passio secundum Matthaeum et Joannem (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
  • Paolo Isnardi – Omnes ad vesperas psalmi for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Jacobus de Kerle – Selectiorum aliquot modulorum for four, five, and eight voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Sacrae cantiones for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
    • Cantica sacra for six and eight voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
    • Lamentations for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
    • Madrigals for five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Gerlach)
  • Claude Le Jeune – Livre de mélanges (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin), a collection of chansons
  • Luca Marenzio
    • Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
    • Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
    • First book of madrigals for four voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
    • Second book of canzonette alla napolitana for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), his second collection of villanelle
    • Third book of villanelle for three voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
  • Rinaldo del Mel
    • Third book of motets for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
    • First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for six and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Benedetto Pallavicino – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Costanzo Porta – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)

Classical music

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