Bálint Bakfark – Intabulatura Valentini Bacfarc transilvani coronensis liber primus (Lyon: Jacques Moderne), a collection of lute intabulations of works by various composers
Pierre Certon – First book of chansons for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Adrianus Petit Coclico – Musica reservata for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber), a collection of psalm settings
Hans Gerle – Ein Newes sehr Künstlichs Lautenbuch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), a collection of pieces by various Italian lutenists in German lute tablature
Claude Goudimel – MissaIl ne se treuve en amitié for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
Jean de Latre – Chansons for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse & Martin Rotaire)
^Peter Aston, "Thorne, John", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).