1605 in music
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The year 1605 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Publications
- Gregor Aichinger – Psalm 50 Miserere mei for eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve voices (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich)
- Giammateo Asola – Madrigals for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Ippolito Baccusi – {{lang|it|Le Vergini d'Ippolito Baccusi}}: second book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), contains settings of text from Petrarch's {{interlanguage link|Vergine bella|it}}
- Ludovico Balbi – Masses and motets for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, also includes a Te Deum
- Adriano Banchieri
- {{lang|it|{{ill|Barca di Venezia per Padova|it}}}}, second book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- {{lang|it|L'Organo suonarino}}, Op. 13 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of organ music and instructions for playing organ during mass{{cite journal|last=Bonta|first=Stephen|title=The Uses of the 'Sonata de Chiesa'|location=Richmond, Va.|journal=Journal of the American Musicological Society|date=Spring 1969|volume=22|issue=1|issn=0003-0139|publisher=American Musicological Society|pages=56|jstor=830812|doi=10.2307/830812}}
- Giulio Belli – {{lang|la|Compieta, mottetti, & letanie della Madonna}} for eight voices (two choirs with continuo) (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- William Byrd – {{lang|la|Gradualia}}, book one, for three, four, and five voices (London: Thomas East)
- Sethus Calvisius – {{lang|de|Der Psalter Davids Gesangweis}} for four voices (Leipzig), a setting of the Becker Psalter
- Antonio Cifra – First book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
- Giovanni Croce – Magnificats for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Giacomo Finetti – {{lang|la|Completorium}} for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Compline
- Melchior Franck – {{lang|de|Deutsche Weltliche Gesäng und Täntze}} (German Secular Songs and Dances), Part 2, for four voices (Coburg)
- Andrea Gabrieli
- {{lang|it|Canzoni alla francese et ricercari ariosi}} (Venice: Angelo Gardano), fifth book of his organ music, published posthumously
- {{lang|it|Canzoni alla francese per sonar, sopra stromenti da tasti}} (Venice: Angelo Gardano), sixth and final book of his organ music, published posthumously
- Marco da Gagliano – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Bartholomäus Gesius – {{lang|de|Christliche Hauß und Tisch Musica}} (Christian House and Table Music) for four voices (Wittenberg: Lorenz Seuberlich for Paul Helwig)
- Ruggiero Giovannelli – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tobias Hume – The first part of ayres (London: John Windet), a collection of songs accompanied by one or two viols
- Johannes Lippius – {{lang|it|Fuga a 4}} (Strasburg)
- Duarte Lobo – Magnificat for four voices (Antwerp: Plantin)
- Claudio Merulo – 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)
- {{lang|it|Concerti ecclesiastici}} for two and four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Claudio Monteverdi – {{Lang|it|Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Claudio Monteverdi Maestro della Musica del Serenissimo Sig.r Duca di Mantoa, col basso continuo per il Clavicembano, Chittarone, od altro simile istromento; fatto particolarmente per li sei ultimi, per li altri a beneplacito}} (Fifth book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Benedetto Pallavicino – {{lang|la|Sacrae dei laudes...}} (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Francis Pilkington – The first booke of songs or ayres of 4. parts (London: Thomas Este)
- Costanzo Porta
- {{lang|la|Psalmodia vespertina}} 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 – {{lang|la|Musae Sionae}}, Part 1
- Enrico Antonio Radesca – First book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
- Tomás Luis de Victoria – {{lang|la|Officium Defunctorum, sex vocibus, in obitu et obsequiis sacrae imperatricis}}
Classical music
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Opera
- none listed
Births
- March – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer (died 1669)
- April – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (died 1674)
- April 19 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (died 1672)
- July 9 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (died 1659)
- September 17 – Francesco Sacrati, early opera composer (died 1650)
- date unknown – Constantia Zierenberg, singer and musician (died 1653)
- probable
- Johann Vierdanck, violinist, cornettist, and composer (died 1646)
- Julius Johann Weiland, composer (died 1663)
Deaths
- February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (born 1550)
- September 24 – Manuel Mendes, composer and music teacher (born c. 1547)
- date unknown – Pedro Bermúdez, composer and chapel-master (born 1558)