1602 in music

Events

• Asprilio Pacelli is appointed of St Peter's Basilica

Publications

• February – Giulio Caccini – (The New Music), published in Florence
• Agostino Agazzari – , book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
• Gregor Aichinger – (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of , for three voices
• Felice Anerio
• Second book of (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
• Second book of madrigals for six voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
• Giammateo Asola
• (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
• (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Ippolito Baccusi – for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Christoph Demantius – for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
• Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
• Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
• for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
• for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
• for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
• Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Bartholomäus Gesius – for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
• Pierre Guédron – for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
• Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
• Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
• Duarte Lobo – for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
• Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
• Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Costanzo Porta – for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
• Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
• Orfeo Vecchi
• Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
• (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

• Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

• February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
• April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
• probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
• March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
• October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
• November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)

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