1510s in music

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The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510-1519) involved some significant compositions.

Events

• 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

Publications

Illustration from the title page of Arnolt Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten (1511), the first German treatise on organ building and performance

• 1511: Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
• 1511: Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato.. Libro secundo
• 1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
• 1518: The Medici Codex

Classical music

• 1510: Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez assembles or composes Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.

Births

1510

• Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist (died 1565)
• Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566)
• probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561)
• probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)

1511

• date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)

1516

• probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)

1517

• January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)

Deaths

• 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)