1601 in music explained
Events
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger – Latin: Odaria lectissima ex melitiss. D. Bernardi jubilo delibata... (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), a collection of sacred songs for three and four voices
- Adriano Banchieri – Italian: Il Metamorfosi musicale, fourth book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Valerio Bona
- Second book of masses and motets for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- First book of madrigals and canzonas for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Joachim Burmeister – German: Geistlicher Psalmen D. M. L. und anderer gottseligen Menner for four voices (Rostock: Stephan Myliander)
- Giulio Caccini – Italian: [[Le nuove musiche]] [1] (The New Music) (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
- Giovanni Croce
- Latin: Sacrae cantiones for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Christoph Demantius – 77 German: neue außerlesene, liebliche, zierliche, polnischer und teutscher Art, Täntze mit und ohne Texten for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Baur)
- Johannes Eccard – German: Braut Lied (Ein treu Gemahl) for six voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Melchior Franck – First book of Latin: sacrae melodiae for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Augsburg: Schönigian)
- Andrea Gabrieli – Italian: Mascherate for three, four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes pieces by Ippolito Chamaterò, Orazio Vecchi, and Geminiano Capilupi
- Bartholomäus Gesius – German: Geistliche Deutsche Lieder (Sacred German Songs) for four and five voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann Hartmann)
- Gioseffo Guami – Italian: Partitura per sonare delle canzonette alla francese (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Adam Gumpelzhaimer – Latin: Sacrorum concentuum, book one, for eight voices (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
- Hans Leo Hassler
- German: Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann)
- Latin: Sacri concentus, book 1 (Augsburg: Valentin Schönigk)
- Jakob Hassler – Latin: Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), also includes a mass and a setting of Psalm 51
- Joachim van den Hove – Latin: Florida (Utrecht: Salomon de Roy & Johannes Guilielmus de Rhenen)
- Robert Jones – The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres
- Claude Le Jeune – The 150 Psalms for four and five voices (Paris: the widow of R. Ballard and his son Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi – Italian: Madrigali ... per cantare, et sonare a 1, 2, e 3 soprani (Rome: Simone Verovio), featuring works written before 1597 for the Italian: [[Concerto delle donne]]
- Tiburtio Massaino – Third book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Simone Molinaro – Second book of motets for eight voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Francesco Besozzi)
- Philippe de Monte – last of thirty-four books of madrigals
- Thomas Morley (ed.) – Madrigales The Triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices: composed by divers severall aucthors
- Asprilio Pacelli – Italian: Madrigali... libro primo, a quattro voci (Venice, Giacomo Vincenti)
- Pietro Paolo Paciotto – Latin: Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum..., book 1 (Rome, Nicolo Mutii)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Twelfth book of masses, published posthumously
- Orfeo Vecchi
- The seven penitential psalms for six voices (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
- Latin: Psalmi in totius anni solemnitatibus (Psalms for the solemnities of the whole year) (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
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Notes and References
- Italian: Le nuove musiche was published in 1601 per the Julian calendar. Some sources list 1602 as the publication date.
