1602 in music
Events
Publications
- February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche, published in Florence
- Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones, book 1
- Gregor Aichinger – Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae, settings of selections from the Floridorum of, for three voices
- Felice Anerio
- *Second book of Sacri hymni et canticle
- *Second book of madrigals for six voices
- Giammateo Asola
- *Psalmi ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas for three voices, also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
- *Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... for eight voices
- *Lamentations for six voices
- Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices
- Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument
- Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices
- Christoph Demantius – Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments, a collection of music for Vespers
- Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
- Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices
- Melchior Franck
- *Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices, a collection of secular partsongs
- *Farrago for six voices, a collection of secular partsongs
- *Contrapuncti composti for four voices, a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
- Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Bartholomäus Gesius – Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preiß der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices, a song in praise of Music
- Pierre Guédron – Airs de cours for four and five voices
- Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices
- Alonso Lobo – First book of masses
- Duarte Lobo – Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices, a collection of liturgical music
- Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices, also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
- Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices, published posthumously
- Costanzo Porta – Hymnodia sacra for four voices, a collection of hymns for the whole year
- Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices
- Orfeo Vecchi
- *Third book of masses for five voices
- *La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna, a madrigal cycle
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici, the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass
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