1606 in music

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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 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Gregor Aichinger
    • Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
    • Vulnera Christi for three and four voices (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
    • Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
  • Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (London: John Windet)
  • Felice Anerio – Responsoria (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
  • Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a song for two tenors
  • John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices
  • Sethus Calvisius – Herr Gott wer kan aussgründen for four voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a motet
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima – Partito de ricercari, & canzoni alla francese (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
  • Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Christian Erbach – Modorum sacrorum tripertitorum, quibus solennium sacrorum per annum initia for five voices, parts 2 & 3 (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer), a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs
  • Giacomo Finetti – Orationes vespertinae for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Vespers
  • Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Konrad Hagius – Canticum Virginis intemeratae (ie. Magnificat) for four, five, and six voices (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer)
  • Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
    • Second book of hymns for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
    • Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
  • Claude Le Jeune
    • Pseaumes en vers mesurez for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
    • Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde (Eight-line poems on the vanity and inconstancy of the world) for three and four voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Tiburtio Massaino – Sacri modulorum concentus for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31 (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
  • Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
  • Claudio Merulo – Second book of canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), 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 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Serafino Patta - Missa, psalmi, motecta ac litaniae in honorem Deiparae Virginis... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)

Classical music

  • Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio),[1] premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino
  • John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices (London: John Windet for William Barley for John Browne), written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire (April 3, 1606).

Opera

  • Andrea Cima – La Gentile

Births

  • date unknown
    • William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
    • Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
    • Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)

Deaths

  • January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
  • September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
  • date unknown
    • Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
    • Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher
  • probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)

References

  1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd. ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 125. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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