1600 in music explained
The year 1600 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Start of Artusi–Monteverdi controversy, with publication of Artusi's treatise, L'Artusi Ovvero delle Imperfettioni della moderna musica.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Italian: Dialogo pastorale al presepio di nostro signore (Rome: Simone Verovio)
- Giammateo Asola
- Latin: Divinae Dei laudes for two voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Latin: Sacro sanctae dei laudes for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Adriano Banchieri – Italian: Il studio dilettevole (Milan: Giovanni Francesco Besozzi & Co.), the third book of canzonettas for three voices
- Giulio Belli – First book of Latin: Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Valerio Bona – Latin: Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum (Psalms for all Vespers for the whole year) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giulio Caccini – Italian: [[Euridice (Caccini)|Euridice]] (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti), not premiered until 1602
- Christoph Demantius – Latin: Tympanum militare for six voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich)
- John Dowland – The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4. and 5. parts, including Flow my Tears (London: Thomas East for Thomas Morley)
- Giovanni Dragoni – First book of motets for five voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii), published posthumously
- Johannes Eccard
- Greek, Modern (1453-);: Epithalamion German: (Wo Christus wird geladen) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- German: Hochzeits Lied (Nechst Gott auff dieser Erden) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Thomas Elsbeth – Latin: Selectissimae & novae cantiones sacrae for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
- Christian Erbach – Latin: Mode sacri sive cantus musici, Liber Primus for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
- Bartholomäus Gesius – Latin: Psalmodia choralis (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a collection of antiphons, responsories, hymns, introits and other mass music
- Jakob Hassler – Madrigals for six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kaffmann)
- Orlande de Lassus – Latin: Prophetiae Sibyllarum for four voices (Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich), published posthumously
- Tiburtio Massaino – First book of masses for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Simone Molinaro – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Philippe de Monte
- Seventh book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Italian: Musica sopra Il pastor fido for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals
- Thomas Morley – The first booke of ayres (London: William Barley)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
- Tenth book of masses
- Eleventh book of masses
- Latin: Litaniae deiparae Virginis...
- Benedetto Pallavicino — Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Orfeo Vecchi
- Latin: Hymni totius anni (Hymns for the whole year) for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
- Latin: Falsi bordoni figurati sopra gli otto toni ecclesiastici for four, five, and eight voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a collection of canticles, hymns, and litanies
- Thomas Weelkes – Madrigals Of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices
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