1617 in music

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The year 1617 in music involved some significant events.

Events

January 6 – The Vision of Delight, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
January 16 – Thomas Weelkes, organist at Chichester Cathedral, is dismissed for being drunk and disorderly.
February 22 – Lovers Made Men, another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)
August 30 – Alessandro Grandi is appointed singer at San Marco, Venice, at a salary of 80 ducats per annum, under choirmaster Claudio Monteverdi.^[1]
December 29 – John Bull is appointed cathedral organist in Antwerp, with a salary of 80 florins a year plus a special supplement of 20 florins.^[2]
Lutenist and composer Jacques Gaultier flees to England from France after being involved in a murder.^[3]

Gregor Aichinger – Encomium verbo incarnato (Ingolstadt, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo.^[4]
Gregor Aichinger – Officium angeli custodis (Dillingen, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo, dedicated to Maximilian Fugger.^[5]
Giovanni Andreini, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, Alessandro Ghivizzani – Musiche de alcuni eccellentissimi Musici composte per la Maddalena (Venice, Bartolomeo Magni) "Sacra Rappresentazione" (i.e. an oratorio).^[6]
Jean Baptiste Besard – Novus Partus, sive Concertationes Musicae (Augsburg, D. Franck), collection of lute music.^[7]
Thomas Campion – The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, Thomas Snodham), "so as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion."^[8]
Biagio Marini – Affetti musicali (Musical Affections), Op. 1 (Venice)^[9]
Johann Schein – Banchetto musicale, newer … Padouanen, Gagliarden, Courenten und Allemanden à 5, auff allerley Instrumenten (Leipzig).^[10]

February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian, poet, and composer (born 1549)
April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)
August 8 – Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (born 1542)
August 16 – Giovanni Bassano, cornet player and composer (born c. 1560)
date unknown
- Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpet player (born c. 1542)
- Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)

^ Jerome Roche and Roark Miller, "Grandi, Alessandro (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Susi Jeans and O.W. Neighbour, "Bull [Boul, Bul, Bol], John [Jan] [Bouville, Bonville, Jean]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Monique Rollin, "Gautier [Gaultier], Jacques [Gwaltier, James]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Classical Music Diary, 8-30-2015, accessed 11-7-2017 [1]
^ Classical Music Diary, 8-30-2015, accessed 11-7-2017 [2]
^ IMSLP La Maddalena, accessed 11-8-2017 [3]
^ Library of Congress, Notated Music accessed 11-8-2017 [4]
^ Full Online Text at University of Michigan Early English Books Online,accessed 11-7-2017 [5]
^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 147. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 213. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.