Events Asprilio Pacelli is appointed of St Peter's Basilica
Publications February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche was published in 1602 per the Gregorian calendar. Some sources list 1601, based on the Julian calendar, as the publication date. (The New Music), published in Florence Agostino Agazzari – , book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Gregor Aichinger – (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of , for three voices Felice Anerio Second book of (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti) Second book of madrigals for six voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti) Giammateo Asola (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Ippolito Baccusi – for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino) Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Christoph Demantius – for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace) Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti) Melchior Franck for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano) Bartholomäus Gesius – for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music Pierre Guédron – for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard) Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard) Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre) Duarte Lobo – for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously Costanzo Porta – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr) Orfeo Vecchi Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate) (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass
Opera Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)
Births February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676) April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645) probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)
Deaths January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563) March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563) October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557) November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)
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