Overview of the events of 1557 in music
- 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
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