1589 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

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

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