1606 in music

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