Publications
- Richard Allison – The psalmes of David in meter
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Giammateo Asola
- Nova omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia (New Vespers psalms for all solemnities) for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Secundi chori vespertinae omnium solemnitatum psalmodiae for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Adriano Banchieri – Messa solenne for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Giovanni Bassano – Second book of Concerti ecclesiastici for five, six, seven, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Lodovico Bellanda – Canzonette spirituali for two, three, and four voices (Verona: Francesco Dalle Donne & Scipione Vargnano)
- Giulio Belli – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- John Bennet – Madrigalls to Foure Voyces
- Valerio Bona – Fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
- Joachim a Burck – Quadraginta Odae catecheticae in laudem Dei, et piae iuventutis usum (Forty catechetical odes in praise of God for use by pious youth) for four voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard), texts by Ludwig Helmbold
- Giovanni Paolo Cima – First book of motets for four voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
- Giovanni Croce – Masses for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Baldassare Donato – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Johannes Eccard – Hochzeit Liedt (Gleichwie ein Schütz) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Thomas Elsbeth
- Neue Ausserlesene Weltliche Lieder (Exceptional New Secular Songs) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
- Neue geistliche, zu Christlicher Andacht bewegende Lieder (New Spiritual Songs that Evoke Christian Devotion) for five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
- John Farmer – The First Set Of English Madrigals: To Foure Voices (London: William Barley for Thomas Morley)
- Ruggiero Giovannelli – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Hans Leo Hassler – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffman)
- Anthony Holborne – Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs, both grave and light, in five parts, for Viols, Violins, or other Musicall Winde Instruments (London: William Barley)
- Giovanni de Macque – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace)
- Luca Marenzio – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tiburtio Massaino
- Fourth book of motets for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Musica super Threnos Ieremie prophete for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Holy Week
- Simone Molinaro
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
- First book of Intavolatura di liuto (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Philippe de Monte – La fiammetta for seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Asprilio Pacelli – Chorici psalmi et mocteta quatuor vocum, liber primus (Rome: Nicolo Mutii)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
- Eighth book of masses
- Ninth book of masses
- Tomaso Pecci – Canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains fifteen pieces by Pecci and fifteen by Mariano Tantucci
- Hieronymus Praetorius – Cantiones sacrae de praecipuis festis totius anni for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
- Enrico Antonio Radesca – Thesoro amoroso, first book of canzonettas for three and four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)