1594 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Ippolito Baccusi
- Latin: Psalmi omnes qui in vesperis a Romana Ecclesia decantantur for four voices, books 2 & 3 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
- First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Girolamo Belli – Latin: Sacrae cantiones cum B. V. cantico (Motets and a Magnificat) for ten voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a mass for eight voices
- Valerio Bona – Masses and motets for three voices (Milan: Francesco & Simon Tini), also includes a Magnificat for six voices
- Sethus Calvisius – Latin: Hymni sacri latini et germanici (Sacred hymns in Latin and German) for four voices (Erfurt: Georg Baumann)
- Giovanni Croce
- First book of motets for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Italian: Novi pensieri musicali (New musical thoughts) for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Christoph Demantius – Latin: Epithalamium honori nuptiarum Dn. Andreae Goldbeckii cum foemina Anna Christophori Reichij relicta vidua (Leipzig: Zacharias Berwald), a wedding song
- Scipione Dentice – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
- Giovanni Dragoni – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Johannes Eccard
- Greek, Modern (1453-);: Epithalamion (German: Was Gott für hat) for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a wedding song
- Latin: Dilexi sapientiam for five voices (Königsberg: George Osterberg), a graduation song
- Carlo Gesualdo
- First book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer – German: Neue Teutsche Geistliche Lieder (New German Sacred Songs) for four voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
- Johannes Herold – German: Historia, deß Leidens unnd Sterbens unsers Herrn und Haylandts Jesu Christu auß dem H. Euangelisten Mattheo for six voices (Grätz: Georg Widmanstetter)
- Paolo Isnardi – Latin: Missa cum motteto for eight voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Orlande de Lassus – Motets for six voices (Graz: Georg Widmanstetter)
- Claude Le Jeune – Airs for four and five voices (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and the widow of R. Ballard)
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
- Luca Marenzio – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tiburtio Massaino – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Rinaldo del Mel
- Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Third book of Italian: madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Claudio Merulo – Latin: Sacrorum concentuum, book one for eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte – Eighth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Thomas Morley – Madrigalls To Foure Voyces ... The First Booke (London: Thomas Este)
- John Mundy – Songs and psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London: Thomas Este)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Sixth book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
- Seventh book of masses for four and five voices (Rome: Francesco Coattino)
- Andreas Raselius – German: Teutscher Sprüche auss den sontäglichen Evangeliis durchs gantze Jar, first German: [[Evangelienmotetten]] cycle covering the whole year to be written in the German language
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