1620 in music

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Events[edit]

Popular music[edit]

perhaps around this time "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (second version)

Publications[edit]

Agostino Agazzari – Stille soavi di celeste aurora..., Op. 19 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of madrigals
Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Rime sacre concertate (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Adriano Banchieri – First book of masses and motets arranged for one bass and two tenor voices with organ, Op. 42 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Aurelio Bonelli – Masses and motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Antonio Cifra
- Psalmi Sacrique Concentus for eight voices (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
- Motets for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho – Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck), the earliest keyboard music printed in Portugal^[1]
Christoph Demantius
- Threnodiae for four, five, and six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a collection of funeral music
- Hochzeitliche Concert-Motet for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Augustus von Schönberg and Ursula Haubold on March 6
- Frommer Eheleut Hochzeit Geschenck for eight voices (Freiberg Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johann Hassen and Susanna Horn on May 30
Richard Dering
- Canzonettas for four voice with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
- Canzonettas for three voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
Melchior Franck
- Neues Hochzeitgesang (Gott wird die Braut erhaschen) auss dem alten Christlichen Gesang for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
- Schöner trostreicher Text ausz dem 15. Capittel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a wedding motet
Michelagnolo Galilei – Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto (Munich)^[2]
Pierre Guédron – Fifth book of airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
Scipione Lacorcia – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
Ivan Lukačić – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Gardano), a collection of motets
Carlo Milanuzzi – Aurea Corona di scherzi poetici scelti da la Ghirlanda dell' Aurora for two, three, and four voices with basso continuo, Op. 3 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
- Venite exsultemus Domino for three voices and organ bass (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
- Salmi vespertini for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Second book of madrigals to five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
Martin Peerson – Private musicke, or the first booke of ayres and dialogues, contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)

Births[edit]

September 6 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
probable – Adam Drese, bass viol player and composer (d. 1701)

Deaths[edit]

March 1 – Thomas Campion, composer and poet (born 1567)
March 25 – Johannes Nucius, composer and music theorist (born c. 1556)
August 2 – Carolus Luython, composer (born 1557)
date unknown
- Thomas Adams, music publisher (born c. 1566)
- Joachim van den Hove, composer (born c.1567)
probable – Girolamo Belli, composer and music teacher (born 1552)

References[edit]

^ Esses, Maurice (1992). Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance. Pendragon Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780945193081.
^ Galilei, Michelangelo; Chauvel, Claude (1988). "Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto". National Library of Australia. Genève : Minkoff. Retrieved 23 August 2018.

[1] Esses, Maurice (1992). Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance. Pendragon Press. p. 47. ISBN 9780945193081.

[2] Galilei, Michelangelo; Chauvel, Claude (1988). "Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto". National Library of Australia. Genève : Minkoff. Retrieved 23 August 2018.

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