1600 in music

The year 1600 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Start of the Artusi–Monteverdi controversy, marked by the 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 – (Rome: Simone Verovio)
• Giammateo Asola
• for two voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Adriano Banchieri – (Milan: Giovanni Francesco Besozzi & Co.), the third book of canzonettas for three voices
• Giulio Belli – First book of for four, five, six, eight, and twelve voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Valerio Bona – (Psalms for all Vespers for the whole year) (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giulio Caccini – (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti), not premiered until 1602
• Christoph Demantius – 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
• for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• for five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• Thomas Elsbeth – for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
• Christian Erbach – for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
• Bartholomäus Gesius – (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a collection of antiphons, responsories, hymns, introits and other mass music
• Jakob Hassler – Madrigals for six voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kaffmann)
• Orlande de Lassus – for four voices (Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich), published posthumously
• Tiburtio Massaino – First book of masses for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Simone Molinaro – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Philippe de Monte
• Seventh book of motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of canzoni and madrigals
• Thomas Morley – The first booke of ayres (London: William Barley)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (posthumous publications)
• Tenth book of masses
• Eleventh book of masses
• Benedetto Pallavicino — Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Orfeo Vecchi
• (Hymns for the whole year) for five voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi)
• for four, five, and eight voices (Milan: heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a collection of canticles, hymns, and litanies
• Thomas Weelkes – Madrigals Of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices

Classical music

• Emilio de' Cavalieri – , the first oratorio (produced in Rome in February)

Opera

• Giulio Caccini – , 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)

References