1557 in music
# 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)
