1610 in music

Events

• Girolamo Diruta dedicates part 2 of his treatise, Il transilvano, to Leonora Orsini Sforza. This is the last record of Diruta.

Publications

• Adriano Banchieri – Vezzo di perle musicali, Op. 23, a collection of motets
• Bartolomeo Barbarino
• *Third book of Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments, also includes some canzonettas
• *First book of motets for solo voice, either soprano or tenor
• Lodovico Bellanda – Second book of Le musiche... per cantarsi sopra theorba, arpicordo, & altri stromenti, for one and two voices
• Girolamo Belli – Psalms for five voices and continuo, Op. 20, also includes two Magnificats and Marian litanies
• Joachim a Burck
• *January 28 – Zwey Epithalamia, zu Glückwünschung zur Hochzeit
• *April 23 – Drey christliche Brautlieder
• Antonio Cifra – Vespers and motets for eight voices, Op. 9
• Giovanni Paolo Cima – Concerti ecclesiastici for one, two, three and four voices with one for five and one for eight, together with a mass, two Magnificats, and six sonatas with 2 to 4 instruments and basso continuo
• William Corkine – Ayres, to sing and play to the lute and basse violl, also includes dance music for the lyra viol
• Giovanni Croce – 9 Lamentations for Holy Week for four voices, published posthumously
• Christoph Demantius – Corona harmonica for six voices or instruments, contains settings of selections from the Gospels for the whole year
• Eustache Du Caurroy
• *Meslanges de la musique, a collection of psalm settings, published posthumously
• *Fantasies for three, four, five, and six parts, published posthumously
• Michael East – The Third Set Of Bookes... to 5. and 6. parts: Apt both for Viols and Voyces
• Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion in honorem nuptiarum Thomae Hoikendorphii & Elisabethae Foltelij compositum, a wedding song
• Melchior Franck
• *Musikalische Fröligkeit von etlichen Neuen lustigen Deutschen Gesängen, Täntzen, Galliarden und Concerten for four, five, six, and eight voices
• *Flores musicales for four, five, six, and eight voices
• *Gratulationes musicae for three, four, and five voices, a birthday song
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Cantiones sacrae chorales for four, five, and six voices
• Cesario Gussago – Psalmi ad vesperas solemnitatum totius anni for eight voices
• Andreas Hakenberger – Neue Deutsche Gesänge for five voices, a collection of madrigals
• Sigismondo d'India
• *Novi concentus ecclesiastici for two and three voices, a collection of sacred songs
• *Second book of sacrae concentus for three, four, five, and six voices
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of villanelle for one, two, and three voices with accompaniment
• Orlande de Lassus – Posthumous Masses
• Claude Le Jeune – Third book of psalms for three voices, published posthumously
• Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for four voices
• Simone Molinaro – Fatiche spirituali for six voices, books 1 & 2
• Claudio Monteverdi – Vespro della Beata Vergine
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Motets for two, three, and four voices
• Germano Pallavicino – Il secondo libro delle fantasie, over ricercare a quattro voci...
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – Fourth book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two and three voices

Classical music

• Georg Patermann – Harmonia for ten voices, to commemorate the wedding of Peter Fueß and Wendula Linsing

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi – ''L'Andromeda''

Births

• July – Leonora Duarte, Flemish musician and composer
• December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer
• date unknown
• *Wojciech Bobowski, Polish musician and Ottoman dragoman
• *Henry Du Mont, French composer
• *Michel Lambert, French composer of airs

Deaths

• May 2 – Paolo Virchi, organist and composer
• May 24 – Joachim a Burck, composer and Lutheran hymnodist