Jacques Arcadelt – Quatorsième livre de chansons (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Jacquet de Berchem – Primo Secundo e Terzo Libro del Cappricio for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a madrigal cycle setting stanzas of Orlando Furioso, and the first musical work to be titled "Cappricio"
Ippolito Chamaterò – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Ippolito Ciera – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Nicolao Dorati – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
^Edmond Strainchamps, "Luzzaschi, Luzzasco", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Richard Sherr, "Merlo, Alessandro [Alexander]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Howard Mayer Brown, "Jambe de Fer, Philibert", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).