1555 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1555.

List of years in music (table)
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Events

Music

  • Hermann Finck – Two wedding motets:
    • Amore flagrantissimo, for five voices
    • Pectus ut in sponso, for four voices

Publications

  • Jacquet de Berchem – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Pierre Cadéac – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Pierre Certon – 50 Psalms for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Jhan Gero – Two books of motets (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Claude Gervaise, ed. – Sixth book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaignant's widow)
  • Claude Goudimel – Second book of psalms for four, five, and six voices (Paris)
  • Francisco Guerrero – Motets for four and five voices (Seville: Martin de Montesdoca)
  • Clément Janequin
    • First book of inventions musicales for five voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
    • Second book of inventions musicales (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
    • Second book of chansons et cantiques spirituels for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  • Orlande de Lassus
    • Fourth book for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains chansons, madrigals, villanelle, and motets, published in Italian and French
    • First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jean de Latre – Sixth book of chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
  • Jean l'HéritierMotetti de la Fama for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Vicente Lusitano – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
  • Jean Maillard – First book of motets for four, five, and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of secular madrigals for four voices
  • Martin Peudargent
    • First book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius)
    • Second book of motets for five voices (Dusseldorf: Jacob Bathenius for Arnold Birckmann)
  • Dominique Phinot – First book of psalms for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Costanzo Porta
    • First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
    • First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Nicola VicentinoL'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ("Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice"), a treatise aimed at revising the chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient Greeks.
  • Adrian Willaert – 'I sacri e santi salmi (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the first printed collection by a single composer of complete polyphonic office settings

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Chaney, Edward (1998). The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0-7146-4577-X.
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