Events

Publications

• Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
• Giammateo Asola
  • Secundum pars continens officium hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Sacrae cantiones in totius anni solennitatibus... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
• Girolamo Belli – I furti amorosi (The Loving Thefts), second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), contains compositions based on quotes from famous madrigals
• Giulio Belli – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giuseppe Caimo – Second book of canzonette for four voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
• Girolamo Conversi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Camillo Cortellini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi)
• Girolamo Dalla Casa – Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana, 2 vols. (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Vincenzo Galilei
  • Fronimo Dialogo, revised edition (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
  • Contrapunti for two voices or instruments (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
• Francisco Guerrero – Vespers (Rome: Domenico Basa)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations and Benedictus for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Orlande de Lassus
  • Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the penitential psalms
  • Continuation du mellange for three, four, five, six, and ten voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of chansons and madrigals
• Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Luca Marenzio
  • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
  • Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
  • First book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
• Rinaldo del Mel
  • First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
• Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Philippe de Monte – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Claudio Monteverdi – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
• Jakob Paix - Missa ad imitationem mottetae in illo tempore Joan Moutonis for four voices (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of motets for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
• Benedetto Pallavicino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi
  • Cantiones for five, eight, ten, and more voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
  • Nawe Kurtzweilige Deutsche Lieder (New Entertaining German Songs) for five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)

Classical music

• Paschal de l'Estocart – Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum

Births

• May 27 – Michael Altenburg, German baroque composer (died 1640)
• date unknown
  • Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organist, composer, and theorist (died 1654)
  • Andreas Berger, German composer (died 1656)
  • Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

Deaths

• September/October – Gioseppe Caimo, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
• date unknown
  • Paolo Aretino, Venetian sacred music composer and choirmaster (born 1508)
  • Pietro Vinci, composer (born 1535)
• probable
  • Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian singer and noblewoman (born 1547)
  • Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer (born c.1540)