1606 in music
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The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari
- {{lang|la|Sacrae cantiones... liber quartus}} (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Gregor Aichinger
- Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
- {{lang|la|Vulnera Christi}} for three and four voices (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
- {{lang|la|Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum}} (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
- Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (London: John Windet)
- Felice Anerio – {{lang|la|Responsoria}} (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
- Bartolomeo Barbarino – {{lang|it|Madrigali di diversi autori}} for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a song for two tenors
- John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices
- Sethus Calvisius – {{lang|de|Herr Gott wer kan aussgründen}} for four voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a motet
- Giovanni Paolo Cima – {{lang|it|Partito de ricercari, & canzoni alla francese}} (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
- Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Christian Erbach – {{lang|la|Modorum sacrorum tripertitorum, quibus solennium sacrorum per annum initia}} for five voices, parts 2 & 3 (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer), a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs
- Giacomo Finetti – {{lang|la|Orationes vespertinae}} for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Vespers
- Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Konrad Hagius – {{lang|la|Canticum Virginis intemeratae}} (ie. Magnificat) for four, five, and six voices (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer)
- Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
- Second book of hymns for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
- Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
- Claude Le Jeune
- {{lang|fr|Pseaumes en vers mesurez}} for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
- {{lang|fr|Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde}} (Eight-line poems on the vanity and inconstancy of the world) for three and four voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
- Tiburtio Massaino – {{lang|la|Sacri modulorum concentus}} for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31 (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
- Claudio Merulo – Second book of {{lang|it|canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo}} (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
- Girolamo Montesardo – {{Lang|it|Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola}}, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar
- Nicola Parma – Motets for eight and twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Serafino Patta - {{lang|la|Missa, psalmi, motecta ac litaniae in honorem Deiparae Virginis...}} (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
Classical music
- Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio),{{cite book |last=Palisca |first=Claude V. |title=Baroque Music |edition=3rd. |series=Prentice Hall History of Music |orig-date=1968 |year=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=0-13-058496-7 |pages=125 }} premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino
- John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices (London: John Windet for William Barley for John Browne), written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire (April 3, 1606).
Opera
- Andrea Cima – La Gentile
Births
- date unknown
- William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
- Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
- Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)
Deaths
- January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
- September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
- date unknown
- Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
- Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher
- probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)