title: 1557 in music
text: # 1557 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * August 10 – A precursor of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band makes its first recorded appearance at the Battle of St. Quentin with "drumme and phife".
  * Hoste da Reggio replaces Simon Boyleau as maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Martin Agricola – Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), music used at the Protestant school in Magdeburg, published posthumously
  * Jacques Arcadelt – 3 Masses (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Filippo Azzaiolo (published anonymously) – Villotte del fiore: il primo libro de villotte alla padoana con alcune napolitane, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Jacob Clemens non Papa
     * Second book of masses: Missa Virtute magna for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
     * Third book of masses: Missa En espoir for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
     * Fourth book of masses: Missa Ecce quam bonum for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
     * Fifth book of masses: Missa Gaude lux donatione for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
     * Sixth book of masses: Missa Caro mea for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
     * Souterliedekens IIII for three voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), settings of Psalms and other hymns in Dutch, published posthumously
  * Pierre Clereau – Missa Virginis Mariae for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
  * Claude Goudimel – Third book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for four and five voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
  * Orlande de Lassus – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
  * Jean Maillard
     * Patrem for eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a setting of the Credo
     * Missa Virginis Mariae for five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  * Jan Nasco
     * Canzonas and madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
     * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Dominique Phinot – Missa Si bona suscepimus for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  * Francesco Portinaro – Third book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), also includes dialogs for seven and eight voices
  * Cipriano de Rore
     * Second Book of Madrigals in Four Parts
     * Fourth Book of Madrigals in Five Parts
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, writer and nobleman (died 1622)
  * September 16 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (died 1627)
  * date unknown – Giovanni Croce, composer (died 1609)
  * probable – Thomas Morley, composer, theorist, editor and organist (died 1602)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco, composer, organist and poet (born 1524)
  * probable
     * Thomas Crecquillon, Franco-Flemish composer (born 1505)
     * Nicholas Ludford, composer of masses (born c.1485)
  