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Events
- November 30 – Luca Marenzio returns to Rome from Florence.
 - The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany is celebrated with six staged intermezzi, featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri and Giovanni de' Bardi, which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.
 - Tarquinia Molza is dismissed from the court of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with the composer Giaches de Wert.
 
Publications
- Costanzo Antegnati – Second book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Ippolito Baccusi – Third book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 - Ludovico Balbi – Musicale essercitio for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of madrigals
 - Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones (Motets) for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 - Giulio Belli – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - William Byrd
- Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1, for five voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 - Songs of Sundrie Natures for three, four, five, and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 - Madrigals for six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 
 - Johannes Eccard – Neue Lieder (New Songs) for four and five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
 - Andrea Gabrieli
- Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, includes a few pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli
 - Madrigali et ricercari for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
 
 - Jacobus Gallus
- Harmoniarum moralium (Moral Harmonies) for four voices, book one (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
 - Epicedion harmonicum (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a funeral motet
 
 - Ruggiero Giovannelli – Gli sdruccioli for four voices, book two (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
 - Francisco Guerrero
- Second book of motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 - Canciones y villanescas espirituales for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 
 - Konrad Hagius – Die Psalmen Davids for four voices (Dusseldorf: Albert Byuss), sets the translation by Kaspar Ulenberg
 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Liber Sacrarum Cantionum for seven to sixteen voices with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Paolo Isnardi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigali spirituali for six and seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Jakob Paix – Thesaurus Motetarum, a collection of keyboard arrangements of motets by various composers (Stuttgart, Bernhart Jobin)
 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hymni totius anni... for four voices
 - Giovanni Maria Papalia – First book of madrigals for five voices (Messina: Fausto Bufalini)
 - Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola – Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Scipione Riccio)
 - Andreas Pevernage – First book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
 - Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette
 
Classical music
- Giulio Caccini – Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna
 
Births
- bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer (d. 1640)
 - date unknown – Giovanni Battista Fontana, violinist and composer (d. 1630)
 
Deaths
- date unknown – Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde (born c.1510)
 - probable
- Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
 - Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist (born c.1493/1506)
 
 
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