1609 in music

Events

• October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie. The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft. This collection follows his publication of the first rounds in English, Pammelia.
• Heinrich Schütz comes to Venice to study under Giovanni Gabrieli.
• Francis Tregian the Younger is imprisoned in England, partly for his Catholic sympathies, and perhaps begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Publications

• Agostino Agazzari – 6 Psalms, Op. 12
• Gregor Aichinger
• *Sacrae Dei laudes sub officio divino concinendae...
• *Teutsche Gesenglein: auss dem Psalms
• *Quercus dodonea
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Motets for one, two, and three voices
• Ludovico Balbi – Completorium for twelve voices in three choirs, published posthumously, includes versicles, responsories, hymns, antiphons, and motets for Compline for the entire year
• Adriano Banchieri – Gemelli armonici, Op. 21, a collection of motets for two voices
• Severo Bonini
• *First book of motets for three voices, Op. 3
• *Second book of madrigals and motets for solo voices with harpsichord, theorbo, and organ
• Bernardino Borlasca – Scherzi musicali ecclesiastici sopra la cantica for three voices and continuo
• William Brade – Newe außerlesene Paduanen, Galliarden, Canzonen, Allmand und Coranten, a collection of dance music for five instruments
• Eustache du Caurroy – Preces ecclesiasticae, two volumes of sacred music for three to seven voices
• Antonio Cifra
• *First book of motets for two, three, and four voices
• *Second book of motets for two, three, and four voices
• *Third book of motets for two, three, and four voices
• *7 Psalms for four voices, Op. 7
• *Fourth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 8
• Camillo Cortellini – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices with basso continuo
• Christoph Demantius – Covivialium concentuum for six voices, a collection of madrigals, canzonettas, and villanelle in German
• Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger
• *Ayres for one and two voices with lute and bass instrument
• *Lessons for 1. 2. and 3. viols, includes music for staged works by Ben Jonson
• Giacomo Finetti – Omnia in nocte Nativitatis Domini nostri Iesu Christi, quae ad matinum spectant for five voices, music for Christmas
• Melchior Franck – Gratulationes Musicae, a wedding song
• Bartholomäus Gesius
• *Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae
• *Hymni patrum cum canticis sacris, latinis et germanicis, de praecipuis festis anniversarijs for four voices
• *Psalm 132 for eight voices, a graduation motet
• *Psalm 128 for eight voices, a wedding motet
• Sigismondo d'India – Le musiche da cantar solo, songs for solo voice with accompaniment
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo
• Carolus Luython – First book of masses
• Tiburtio Massaino – Quaerimoniae cum responsoriis infra hebdomadam sanctam concinendae for five voices, Op. 34
• Ascanio Mayone – Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, a collection of keyboard music
• Claudio Merulo – 2 Masses for eight and twelve voices with organ bass, published posthumously
• Simone Molinaro – Third book of motets for five voices with basso continuo
• Claudio Monteverdi - L'Orfeo.
• Johannes Nucius – Cantionum sacrarum for five and six voices, 2 books
• Jacopo Peri – Le varie musiche for one, two, and three voices
• John Wilbye - The Second Set Of Madrigales To 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces
• Il primo libro de madrigali for five voices and continuo, by members of the Nantermi family

Popular music

• Thomas Ravenscroft
• *Pammelia
• *''Deuteromelia''

Births

• date unknown – Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer

Deaths

• January 4 – Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, choral composer
• February 28 – Paul Sartorius, composer and organist
• March 29 – Pau Villalonga, Spanish composer of sacred polyphony
• ?May – Mikołaj Gomółka, Polish court composer
• May 15 – Giovanni Croce, composer
• July 19 – Nicolas Gistou, Flemish counter-tenor musician and composer at the Danish court
• August 7 – Eustache du Caurroy, French composer
• ?September – Piero Strozzi, composer
• September 2 – Ippolito Baccusi, composer of the Venetian School
• October 1 – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer
• date unknown
• *Kanaka Dasa, poet, philosopher, musician and composer of Carnatic music
• *John Hilton the elder, English countertenor, organist and composer