1585 in music

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
  • Completorium romanum duae Beatae Virginis antiphonae, scilicet Salve Regina & Regina coeli (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto), also includes four other motets
  • Hymni ad vespertina omnium solennitatum... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino), in two parts
• 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

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa tu es pastor ovium

Musical theatre

• Andrea Gabrielli – Choruses for the play Edippo Tiranno, performed in Vicenza

Births

• October 8 (JC) – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)
• date unknown
  • Johann Grabbe, composer (died 1655)
  • Wojciech Dębołęcki, Franciscan friar, writer and composer (died 1646)
• probable – Domenico Allegri, singer and composer (died 1629)
  • Andrea Falconieri, composer (died 1653)

Deaths

• August 30 – Andrea Gabrieli, organist and composer (born c.1532)
• November 28 – Hernando Franco, composer (born 1532)
• December 3 – Thomas Tallis, church musician and composer (born 1505)