1605 in music
The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger – Psalm 50 Miserere mei for eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve voices
- Giammateo Asola – Madrigals for six voices
- Ippolito Baccusi – Le Vergini d'Ippolito Baccusi: second book of madrigals for three voices, contains settings of text from Petrarch's
- Ludovico Balbi – Masses and motets for eight voices, published posthumously, also includes a Te Deum
- Adriano Banchieri
- *, second book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 12
- *L'Organo suonarino, Op. 13, a collection of organ music and instructions for playing organ during mass
- Giulio Belli – Compieta, mottetti, & letanie della Madonna for eight voices
- William Byrd – Gradualia, book one, for three, four, and five voices
- Sethus Calvisius – Der Psalter Davids Gesangweis for four voices, a setting of the Becker Psalter
- Antonio Cifra – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Giovanni Croce – Magnificats for eight voices
- Giacomo Finetti – Completorium for five voices, music for Compline
- Melchior Franck – Deutsche Weltliche Gesäng und Täntze, Part 2, for four voices
- Andrea Gabrieli
- *Canzoni alla francese et ricercari ariosi, fifth book of his organ music, published posthumously
- *Canzoni alla francese per sonar, sopra stromenti da tasti, sixth and final book of his organ music, published posthumously
- Marco da Gagliano – Third book of madrigals for five voices
- Bartholomäus Gesius – Christliche Hauß und Tisch Musica for four voices
- Ruggiero Giovannelli – First book of madrigals for three voices
- Tobias Hume – The first part of ayres, a collection of songs accompanied by one or two viols
- Johannes Lippius – Fuga a 4
- Duarte Lobo – Magnificat for four voices
- Claudio Merulo – Third book of madrigals for six voices, published posthumously
- Simone Molinaro
- *First book of Magnificats for four voices
- *Concerti ecclesiastici for two and four voices
- Claudio Monteverdi – Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Serenissimo Sig.r Duca di Mantoa, col basso continuo per il Clavicembano, Chittarone, od altro simile istromento; fatto particolarmente per li sei ultimi, per li altri a beneplacito
- Benedetto Pallavicino – Sacrae dei laudes...
- Francis Pilkington – The first booke of songs or ayres of 4. parts
- Costanzo Porta
- *Psalmodia vespertina for eight voices, a collection of vespers psalms for every solemnity along with four Magnificats
- *Motets for five voices
- Michael Praetorius – Musae Sionae, Part 1
- Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two voices
- Tomás Luis de Victoria – Officium Defunctorum
Births
- March – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer
- April – Giacomo Carissimi, composer
- April 19 – Orazio Benevoli, composer
- July 9 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer
- September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, early opera composer
- date unknown – Constantia Zierenberg, singer and musician
- probable
- *Johann Vierdanck, violinist, cornettist, and composer
- *Julius Johann Weiland, composer
Deaths
- February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer
- September 24 – Manuel Mendes, composer and music teacher
- date unknown – Pedro Bermúdez, composer and chapel-master