1600 in music

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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 – Dialogo pastorale al presepio di nostro signore (Rome: Simone Verovio)
Giammateo Asola
- Divinae Dei laudes for two voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Sacro sanctae dei laudes for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Adriano Banchieri – Il studio dilettevole (Milan: Giovanni Francesco Besozzi & Co.), the third book of canzonettas for three voices
Giulio Belli – First book of Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Valerio Bona – Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum (Psalms for all Vespers for the whole year) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Giulio Caccini – Euridice (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti), not premiered until 1602
Christoph Demantius – 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
- Epithalamion (Wo Christus wird geladen) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Hochzeits Lied (Nechst Gott auff dieser Erden) for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Thomas Elsbeth – Selectissimae & novae cantiones sacrae for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
Christian Erbach – Mode sacri sive cantus musici, Liber Primus for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
- Tenth book of masses
- Eleventh book of masses
- Litaniae deiparae Virginis...
Benedetto Pallavicino — Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Thomas Weelkes – Madrigals Of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices

Classical music

Emilio de' Cavalieri – Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, the first oratorio (produced in Rome in February)

Opera

Giulio Caccini – Il Rapimento di Cefalo, premièred October 8
Jacopo Peri – Euridice (believed to be the earliest work of modern opera surviving to the present day), produced by Emilio de' Cavalieri for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Maria de' Medici in Florence, premièred October 6

Births

date unknown
- Carlo Farina, Italian violinist and composer (died 1639)
- Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer and conductor (died 1657)
- probable – Etienne Moulinié, French composer (died 1669)

Deaths

April – Thomas Deloney, balladeer (b. 1543)
September – Claude Le Jeune, French composer
November 25 – Ginés Pérez de la Parra, composer (b. c. 1548)