1596 in music
Events
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari – First book of madrigals for six voices
- Felice Anerio – First book of Sacri hymni et canticle
- Ippolito Baccusi
- *Sacrae cantiones psalmi videlicet, et omnia quae ad completorium pertinent for five voices
- *Missae tres tum viva voce tum omni instrumentorum genere cantatu commodissimae for eight voices
- Adriano Banchieri – Second book of Canzoni alla francese for four voices
- Girolamo Belli – First book of canzonettas for four voices
- Giulio Belli – Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni solemnitatibus for eight voices, a collection of Psalms for Vespers, also includes two Magnificats
- Aurelio Bonelli – First book of villanelle for three voices
- Giovanni Croce
- *Masses for eight voices
- *First book of masses for five voices
- *Salmi che si cantano a Terza, con l'inno Te Deum, & i salmi Benedictus e Miserere for eight voices, containing psalms for Terce
- *Li sette sonetti penitenziali for six voices, settings of the seven penitential psalms in sonnet form, translated by Giovanni Francesco Bembo
- Christoph Demantius – Joel, chapter 2 verse 12 for five voices
- Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigals for five voices
- Johannes Eccard
- *XX. Odae sacrae: Ludovici Helmboldi
- *Epithalamium for six voices, a wedding song
- *Harmonia musica for eight voices, a wedding song
- *Hochzeit Lied for five voices, a wedding song
- *Harmonia for six voices, a wedding song
- Stefano Felis – Fourth book of motets for five, six, and eight voices
- Andrea Gabrieli – Third book of ricercari, published posthumously
- Jacobus Gallus – Moralia for five, six, and eight voices, published posthumously
- Bartholomäus Gesius – Novae melodiae harmonicis for five voices
- Carlo Gesualdo – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
- Hans Leo Hassler
- *Neüe teüsche Gesäng nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten for four, five, six, and eight voices
- *Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni de Macque – First book of motets for five, six, and eight voices
- Tiburtio Massaino – Second book of motets for six voices
- Johannes Matelart – Responsoria, antiphoniae et hymni for four and five voices
- Philippe de Monte – First book of motets for four voices
- Peter Philips – First book of madrigals for six voices
- Orfeo Vecchi – Psalmi integri in totius anni solemnitatibus
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