1581 in music
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Events
- Ginés Pérez de la Parra becomes composer and musical director at Orihuela cathedral.
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri becomes maestro di cappella of Cremona cathedral.
Publications
Music
- Luca Marenzio – Second book of madrigals a5
- Philippe de Monte – Fourth book of madrigals a4
Other
- Fabritio Caroso – Il Ballerino, Italian dance manual, containing much dance music
- Vincenzo Galilei – Dialogo della musica antica, et della moderna (Dialogue Concerning Ancient and Modern Music)
Classical music
- Girard de Beaulieu – Circe, the first ballet with a unifying design
- Approximate date – Palestrina – Canticum Canticorum ("Song of Songs")
Births
- July 2 - Johann Staden, organist and composer (d. 1634)
Deaths
- May 7 - Alexander Utendal, composer (born 1543/45)
- date unknown – Joachim Thibault de Courville, French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre
- probable - Antoine de Bertrand (born 1530/1540)