Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
Gregor Aichinger – Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of Jacobus Pontanus [fr], for three voices
Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Christoph Demantius – Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
Farrago for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
Contrapuncti composti for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Bartholomäus Gesius – Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preiß der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
Pierre Guédron – Airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
Duarte Lobo – Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
Costanzo Porta – Hymnodia sacra for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass