1592 in music

Events

• November 13 – Lodovico Bassano marries Elizabeth Damon

Publications

• Costanzo Antegnati – Psalms for eight voices
• Giammateo Asola
• *Cantus firmus masses for organ and choir
• *Sacra, omnium Solemnity for five voices, also includes a Magnificat
• Paolo Bellasio – Villanellas for three voices, with lute tablature
• Valerio Bona – Second book of canzonettas for three voices
• Giovanni Croce – Second book of madrigals for five voices
• Thomas East – The Whole Booke of Psalmes, contains new settings by English composers, including Edward Blancks, Edmund Hooper, and John Dowland
• Angelo Gardano – Il Trionfo di Dori, a collection of 29 madrigals by 29 composers
• Tiburtio Massaino
• *Sacri modulorum concentus for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices in two or three choirs with instruments
• *First book of motets for four voices
• *First book of motets for six voices
• Claudio Merulo – First book of Canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo, a collection of keyboard music
• Philippe de Monte – Fifteenth book of madrigals for five voices
• Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci
• Nicola Parma – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices
• Riccardo Rognoni – Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte d'instrumenti et anco diversi passaggi per la semplice voce humana di Richardo Rogniono espulso di Val Tavegia. Venice.

Classical music

• ''none listed''

Births

• date unknown
• *John Jenkins, English composer
• *Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian composer

Deaths

• February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, diplomat and composer
• May – Giovanni Domenico da Nola, Neapolitan poet and composer
• May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, theologian and musician
• July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, composer
• date unknown – Annibale Zoilo, singer and composer