Joachim a Burck – Vom Heiligen Ehstande (In Holy Matrimony) for four voices or instruments (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), forty settings of hymns by Ludwig Helmbold
Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Camillo Cortellini – First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
Paschal de l'Estocart – Cent cinquante pseaumes de David (150 Psalms of David) for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Barthelemi Vincent)
Costanzo Festa – Litaniae Deiparae Virginis Mariae (Munich: Adam Berg), published posthumously
William Hunnis – Seven sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne (London: Henry Denham), a setting of the penitential psalms and other sacred songs
Nicolas de La Grotte – First book of airs and chansons for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Léon Cavellat)
Orlande de Lassus – Neue teutsche Lieder, geistlich und weltlich (New German Songs, sacred and secular) for four voices (Munich: Adam Berg)
Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
Rinaldo del Mel – Madrigals for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte – First book of madrigali spirituali for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigali spirituali a quattro voci posti in musica da Claudio Monteverde Cremonese, discepolo del Signor Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri (Cremona: Pietro Bozzola & Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio), a book of madrigals with sacred texts
Jakob Paix – Ein Schön Nutz und Gebräuchlich Orgel Tabulaturbuch..., a book of organ arrangements of dances and motets by various composers
Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi – Deutsche Magnificat auff die acht Tonos Musicales (German Magnificats in the eight musical tones) for four and five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
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