1597 in music

Events

• Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Publications

• Gregor Aichinger – Third book of motets
• Giammateo Asola – Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for two choirs
• Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi omnes qui a S. Romana Ecclesia in solemnitatibus ad vesperas decantari solent..., for eight voices, also includes two Magnificats
• Adriano Banchieri
• *Hora prima di recreazione, first book of canzonettas for three voices
• *First book of madrigals for four voices
• Joachim a Burck – Die Historia des Leidens Jesu Christi auss dem Evangelisten S. Luca for five voices
• Sethus Calvisius – Harmonia cantionum ecclesiasticarum for four voices, a collection of Lutheran hymns
• Giovanni Croce
• *Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices, contains psalms for Vespers
• *First book of motets for four voices
• Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of motets for six voices
• John Dowland – The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Partes with tableture for the lute
• Johannes Eccard
• *Geistlicher Lieder auff den Choral oder gemeine Kirchen Melodey for five voices, in two volumes
• *Echo for eight voices, a wedding song
• *Epithalamion for six voices, a wedding song
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1, for six to sixteen voices and instruments
• Jacobus Gallus – Sacrae cantiones de praecipuis festis per totum annum for four, five, six, eight, and more voices, a collection of motets, published posthumously
• Bartholomäus Gesius
• *Hymni scholastici for four voices
• *Echo for ten voices, a graduation motet
• Anthony Holborne – Cittarn Schoole, a collection of songs for the cittern
• George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
• Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for five voices
• Simone Molinaro – First book of motets for five voices and masses for ten voices
• Thomas Morley
• *A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
• *Canzonets, or little short aers to five and sixe voices
• Pietro Pace – Madrigali a cinque voci con uno a sei & un dialogo a sette
• Asprilio Pacelli – First book of motets and psalms to eight voices
• Orfeo Vecchi
• *First book of masses for four voices
• *First book of motets for five voices
• Orazio Vecchi
• *Canzonette a3
• *L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy

Opera

• Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera

Births

• July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios
• date unknown
• *Andreas Düben, organist and composer
• *Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas

Deaths

• January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist
• June 6 – William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
• September 15 – Friedrich Lindner, composer, music editor, singer, and music copyist
• October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer