1597 in music
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Events
    
- Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
 
Publications
    
- Gregor Aichinger – Third book of motets (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann)
 - Giammateo Asola – Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 - Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi omnes qui a S. Romana Ecclesia in solemnitatibus ad vesperas decantari solent..., for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats
 - Adriano Banchieri
- Hora prima di recreazione, first book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 - First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice)
 
 - Joachim a Burck – Die Historia des Leidens Jesu Christi auss dem Evangelisten S. Luca (The Story of the Passion of Jesus Christ by the Evangelist St. Luke) for five voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard)
 - Sethus Calvisius – Harmonia cantionum ecclesiasticarum for four voices (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), a collection of Lutheran hymns
 - Giovanni Croce
- Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains psalms for Vespers
 - First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 
 - Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 - John Dowland – The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Partes with tableture for the lute (London: Peter Short)
 - Johannes Eccard
- Geistlicher Lieder auff den Choral oder gemeine Kirchen Melodey for five voices, in two volumes (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
 - Echo for eight voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
 - Epithalamion (Ein Sprichwort ist) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
 
 - Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1, for six to sixteen voices and instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 - Jacobus Gallus – Sacrae cantiones de praecipuis festis per totum annum for four, five, six, eight, and more voices (Nuremberg: Alexander Philipp Dieterich), a collection of motets, published posthumously
 - Bartholomäus Gesius
- Hymni scholastici for four voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn)
 - Echo (Qualia jam resonet) for ten voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Andreas Eichorn), a graduation motet
 
 - Anthony Holborne – Cittarn Schoole (London: Peter Short), a collection of songs for the cittern
 - George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces (London: Thomas Este)
 - Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
 - Simone Molinaro – First book of motets for five voices and masses for ten voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 - Thomas Morley
- A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
 - Canzonets, or little short aers to five and sixe voices (London: Peter Short)
 
 - Pietro Pace – Madrigali a cinque voci con uno a sei & un dialogo a sette (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 - Asprilio Pacelli – First book of motets and psalms to eight voices (Rome: Nicolo Mutii)
 - Orfeo Vecchi
- First book of masses for four voices (Milan: Francesco & the heirs of Simon Tini)
 - First book of motets for five voices (Milan: the heirs of Francesco and Simon Tini)
 
 - Orazio Vecchi
- Canzonette a3
 - L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
 
 
Opera
    
- Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera
 
Births
    
- July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646)
 - date unknown
- Andreas Düben, organist and composer (died 1662)
 - Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)
 
 
Deaths
    
- January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530)
 - June 6 – William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
 - October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)
 
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