Overview of the events of 1589 in music
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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