- Source: 1610 in music
The year 1610 in music involved some significant events.
Events
Girolamo Diruta dedicates part 2 of his treatise, Il transilvano, to Leonora Orsini Sforza. This is the last record of Diruta.
Publications
Adriano Banchieri – Vezzo di perle musicali, Op. 23 (Necklace of musical pearls) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of motets
Bartolomeo Barbarino
Third book of Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes some canzonettas
First book of motets for solo voice, either soprano or tenor (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Lodovico Bellanda – Second book of Le musiche ... per cantarsi sopra theorba, arpicordo, & altri stromenti (Music to sing with theorbo, harpsichord, and other instruments), for one and two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Girolamo Belli – Psalms for five voices and continuo, Op. 20 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats and Marian litanies
Joachim a Burck
January 28 – Zwey Epithalamia, zu Glückwünschung zur Hochzeit (Two epithalamia as congratulations on the marriage) (Erfurt: Martin Wittel)
April 23 – Drey christliche Brautlieder (Three Christian bridal songs) (Jena: Johann Weidner)
Antonio Cifra – Vespers and motets for eight voices, Op. 9 (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
Giovanni Paolo Cima – Concerti ecclesiastici (Ecclesiastical concerti) for one, two, three and four voices with one for five and one for eight, together with a mass, two Magnificats, and six sonatas with 2 to 4 instruments and basso continuo (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
William Corkine – Ayres, to sing and play to the lute and basse violl (London: W. Stansby for John Browne), also includes dance music for the lyra viol
Giovanni Croce – 9 Lamentations for Holy Week for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), published posthumously
Christoph Demantius – Corona harmonica for six voices or instruments (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), contains settings of selections from the Gospels for the whole year
Eustache Du Caurroy
Meslanges de la musique (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of psalm settings, published posthumously
Fantasies for three, four, five, and six parts (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
Michael East – The Third Set Of Bookes ... to 5. and 6. parts: Apt both for Viols and Voyces
Johannes Eccard – Epithalamion in honorem nuptiarum Thomae Hoikendorphii & Elisabethae Foltelij compositum (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
Melchior Franck
Musikalische Fröligkeit von etlichen Neuen lustigen Deutschen Gesängen, Täntzen, Galliarden und Concerten for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
Flores musicales for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
Gratulationes musicae for three, four, and five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday song
Bartholomäus Gesius – Cantiones sacrae chorales for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
Cesario Gussago – Psalmi ad vesperas solemnitatum totius anni (Vespers psalms for the whole year) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Andreas Hakenberger – Neue Deutsche Gesänge (New German Songs) for five voices (Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld), a collection of madrigals
Sigismondo d'India
Novi concentus ecclesiastici for two and three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of sacred songs
Second book of sacrae concentus for three, four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of villanelle for one, two, and three voices with accompaniment (Rome)
Orlande de Lassus – Posthumous Masses (Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich)
Claude Le Jeune – Third book of psalms for three voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for four voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Gargano & Lucrezio Nucci)
Simone Molinaro – Fatiche spirituali for six voices, books 1 & 2 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespro della Beata Vergine (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Motets for two, three, and four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Germano Pallavicino – Il secondo libro delle fantasie, over ricercare a quattro voci... (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Fourth book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two and three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Classical music
Georg Patermann – Harmonia for ten voices, to commemorate the wedding of Peter Fueß and Wendula Linsing
Opera
Giordano Giacobbi – L'Andromeda
Births
July – Leonora Duarte, Flemish musician and composer (died 1678)
December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (died 1680)
date unknown
Wojciech Bobowski, Polish musician and Ottoman dragoman (died 1675)
Henry Du Mont, French composer (died 1684)
Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (died 1696)
Deaths
May 2 – Paolo Virchi, organist and composer (born 1551)
May 24 – Joachim a Burck, composer and Lutheran hymnodist (born 1546)