1606 in music
The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari
- *Sacrae cantiones... liber quartus
- *Second book of madrigals for five voices
- Gregor Aichinger
- *Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi
- *Vulnera Christi for three and four voices
- *Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum
- Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces
- Felice Anerio – Responsory
- Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments, also includes a song for two tenors
- John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke, a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices
- Sethus Calvisius – Herr Gott wer kan aussgründen for four voices, a motet
- Giovanni Paolo Cima – Partito de ricercari, & canzoni alla francese
- Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices
- Christian Erbach – Modorum sacrorum tripertitorum, quibus solennium sacrorum per annum initia for five voices, parts 2 & 3, a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs
- Giacomo Finetti – Orationes vespertinae for four voices, music for Vespers
- Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices
- Konrad Hagius – Canticum Virginis intemeratae for four, five, and six voices
- Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
- *Second book of hymns for four voices, published posthumously
- *Sixth book of madrigals for five voices, published posthumously
- Claude Le Jeune
- *Pseaumes en vers mesurez for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices, published posthumously
- *Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde for three and four voices, published posthumously
- Tiburtio Massaino – Sacri modulorum concentus for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31
- Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices
- Claudio Merulo – Second book of canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo, published posthumously
- Girolamo Montesardo – Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar
- Nicola Parma – Motets for eight and twelve voices
- Serafino Patta - Missa, psalmi, motecta ac litaniae in honorem Deiparae Virginis...
- Enrico Antonio Radesca – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices
Classical music
- Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio, premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino
- John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices, written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire.
Opera
- Andrea Cima – ''La Gentile''
Births
- date unknown
- *William Child, organist and composer
- *Johannes Khuen, poet and composer
- *Urbán de Vargas, composer
Deaths
- January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer
- September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor
- date unknown
- *Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer
- *Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher
- probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker