1600 in music

Events

• Start of Artusi–Monteverdi controversy, with publication of Artusi's treatise, L'Artusi Ovvero delle Imperfettioni della moderna musica.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – First book of madrigals for five voices
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Dialogo pastorale al presepio di nostro signore
• Giammateo Asola
• *Divinae Dei laudes for two voices
• *Sacro sanctae dei laudes for eight voices
• Adriano Banchieri – Il studio dilettevole, the third book of canzonettas for three voices
• Giulio Belli – First book of Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, eight, and twelve voices
• Valerio Bona – Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum
• Giulio Caccini – Euridice, not premiered until 1602
• Christoph Demantius – Tympanum militare for six voices
• John Dowland – The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4. and 5. parts, including Flow my Tears
• Giovanni Dragoni – First book of motets for five voices, published posthumously
• Johannes Eccard
• *Epithalamion for five voices, a wedding song
• *Hochzeits Lied for five voices, a wedding song
• Thomas Elsbeth – Selectissimae & novae cantiones sacrae for six voices
• Christian Erbach – Mode sacri sive cantus musici, Liber Primus for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Psalmodia choralis, a collection of antiphons, responsories, hymns, introits and other mass music
• Jakob Hassler – Madrigals for six voices
• Orlande de Lassus – Prophetiae Sibyllarum for four voices, published posthumously
• Tiburtio Massaino – First book of masses for eight voices
• Simone Molinaro – Second book of canzonettas for three voices
• Philippe de Monte
• *Seventh book of motets for five voices
• *Musica sopra Il pastor fido for six voices, a collection of canzoni and madrigals
• Thomas Morley – The first booke of ayres
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• *Tenth book of masses
• *Eleventh book of masses
• *Litaniae deiparae Virginis...
• Benedetto Pallavicino — Sixth book of madrigals for five voices
• Orfeo Vecchi
• *Hymni totius anni for five voices
• *Falsi bordoni figurati sopra gli otto toni ecclesiastici for four, five, and eight voices, a collection of canticles, hymns, and litanies
• Thomas Weelkes – ''Madrigals Of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices''

Classical music

• Emilio de' Cavalieri – Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, the first oratorio

[Opera]

• Giulio Caccini – Il Rapimento di Cefalo, premièred October 8
• Jacopo Peri – Euridice, produced by Emilio de' Cavalieri for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Maria de' Medici in Florence, premièred October 6

Births

• date unknown
• *Carlo Farina, Italian violinist and composer
• *Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer and conductor
• *probable – Etienne Moulinié, French composer

Deaths

• April – Thomas Deloney, balladeer
• September – Claude Le Jeune, French composer
• November 25 – Ginés Pérez de la Parra, composer