The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger â Psalm 50 Miserere mei for eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve voices (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich)
- Giammateo Asola â Madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Ippolito Baccusi â : second book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), contains settings of text from Petrarch's
- Ludovico Balbi â Masses and motets for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes a Te Deum
- Adriano Banchieri
- , second book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- , Op. 13 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of organ music and instructions for playing organ during mass
- Giulio Belli â for eight voices (two choirs with continuo) (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- William Byrd â , book one, for three, four, and five voices (London: Thomas East)
- Sethus Calvisius â for four voices (Leipzig), a setting of the Becker Psalter
- Antonio Cifra â First book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
- Giovanni Croce â Magnificats for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giacomo Finetti â for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline
- Melchior Franck â (German Secular Songs and Dances), Part 2, for four voices (Coburg)
- Andrea Gabrieli
- (Venice: Angelo Gardano), fifth book of his organ music, published posthumously
- (Venice: Angelo Gardano), sixth and final book of his organ music, published posthumously
- Marco da Gagliano â Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Bartholomäus Gesius â (Christian House and Table Music) for four voices (Wittenberg: Lorenz Seuberlich for Paul Helwig)
- Ruggiero Giovannelli â First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tobias Hume â The first part of ayres (London: John Windet), a collection of songs accompanied by one or two viols
- Johannes Lippius â (Strasburg)
- Duarte Lobo â Magnificat for four voices (Antwerp: Plantin)
- Claudio Merulo â Third book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
- Simone Molinaro
- First book of Magnificats for four voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
- for two and four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Claudio Monteverdi â (Fifth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Benedetto Pallavicino â (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Francis Pilkington â The first booke of songs or ayres of 4. parts (London: Thomas Este)
- Costanzo Porta
- for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of vespers psalms for every solemnity along with four Magnificats
- Motets for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Michael Praetorius â , Part 1
- Enrico Antonio Radesca â First book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
- Tomás Luis de Victoria âÂÂ
Births
- March â Antonio Bertali, Italian composer (died 1669)
- April â Giacomo Carissimi, composer (died 1674)
- April 19 â Orazio Benevoli, composer (died 1672)
- July 9 â Simon Dach, hymn-writer (died 1659)
- September 17 â Francesco Sacrati, early opera composer (died 1650)
- date unknown â Constantia Zierenberg, singer and musician (died 1653)
- probable
- Johann Vierdanck, violinist, cornettist, and composer (died 1646)
- Julius Johann Weiland, composer (died 1663)
Deaths
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