Publications Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp Giammateo Asola (Venice: Angelo Gardano) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Girolamo Belli – (The Loving Thefts), second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), contains compositions based on quotes from famous madrigals Giulio Belli – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giuseppe Caimo – Second book of for four voices (Milan: Pietro Tini) Girolamo Conversi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Camillo Cortellini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi) Girolamo Dalla Casa – , 2 vols. (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Vincenzo Galilei Fronimo Dialogo, revised edition (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) for two voices or instruments (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti) Francisco Guerrero – Vespers (Rome: Domenico Basa) Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations and Benedictus for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Orlande de Lassus for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the penitential psalms for three, four, five, six, and ten voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of chansons and madrigals Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Luca Marenzio Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) First book of for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) First book of for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Rinaldo del Mel First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto) Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Philippe de Monte – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Claudio Monteverdi – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino) Jakob Paix – for four voices (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of motets for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano) Benedetto Pallavicino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi for five, eight, ten, and more voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel) (New Entertaining German Songs) for five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
Classical music Paschal de l'Estocart – Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum
Births May 27 – Michael Altenburg, German baroque composer (died 1640) date unknown Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organist, composer, and theorist (died 1654) Andreas Berger, German composer (died 1656) Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)
Deaths September/October – Gioseppe Caimo, Italian organist and composer (born 1545) date unknown Paolo Aretino, Venetian sacred music composer and choirmaster (born 1508) Pietro Vinci, composer (born 1535) probable Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian singer and noblewoman (born 1547) Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer (born c.1540)
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