1584 in music

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Events

Publications

Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
Giammateo Asola
- Secundum pars continens officium hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Sacrae cantiones in totius anni solennitatibus... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Girolamo Belli – I furti amorosi (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 canzonette 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 – Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana, 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)
- Contrapunti 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
- Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the penitential psalms
- Continuation du mellange 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 madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
- Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- First book of villanelle 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 - Missa ad imitationem mottetae in illo tempore Joan Moutonis 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
- Cantiones for five, eight, ten, and more voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
- Nawe Kurtzweilige Deutsche Lieder (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)