Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers
Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
Gioseppe Caimo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni)
Claude Goudimel – Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David nouvellement mis en musique for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), homophonic harmonizations of the melodies from the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter
Philibert Jambe de Fer – Les 150 Psaumes de David à 4 et 5 voix (Lyon: Antoine de Cercia & Pierre de Mia)
Orlande de Lassus
First book of motets for five and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Fourth book of chansons for four and five voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
Claude Le Jeune – 10 pseaumes de David for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto)
madrigals
for five voices (Rome: Valerio Salviano & fratelli)
Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina
