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1608 in music

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The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works.

Events

Classical music

  • none listed

Publications

  • Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Costanzo Antegnati – {{lang|it|L'Antegnata}}, Op. 16 (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli), a collection of intabulated ricercars for the organ
  • Adriano Banchieri – {{lang|it|Festino nella sera del giovedi grasso avanti cena}}, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a madrigal comedy
  • Giulio Belli – {{lang|la|Missae sacrae}} for four, five, six, and eight voices with continuo (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
  • Antonio Cifra – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Christoph Demantius – {{lang|la|Conviviorum deliciae}} for six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann), a collection of dance music
  • Juan Esquivel Barahona
  • First book of masses (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
  • {{lang|la|Motecta festorum et dominicarum cum communi sanctorum}} for four, five, six, and eight voices (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
  • Melchior Franck
  • {{lang|de|Geistliche Gesäng und Melodeyen}} (Sacred Songs and Melodies) for five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), mostly setting texts from the Song of Songs
  • {{lang|de|Neue Musicalische Intraden}} for various instruments but especially violas, in six parts (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
  • {{lang|la|Cantica gratulatoria}} for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding song
  • {{lang|de|Der CXXI. Psalm}} for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a setting of Psalm 121
  • {{lang|de|Neues Echo}} for eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • {{lang|la|Dialogus metricus}} for seven voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a Christmas motet
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi
  • {{lang|it|Il primo libro de' madrigali}}
  • {{lang|it|Primo libro delle fantasie}}
  • Marco da Gagliano – Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
  • Bartholomäus Gesius – {{lang|la|Dictum ex Psalmo XXXIIII. De excubiis et custodia Angelorum}} for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet
  • Gioseffo Guami – Second book of motets for choir and instruments (Milan: heirs of Agostino Tradate)
  • Pierre Guédron – {{lang|fr|Airs de cours}} for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
  • Cesario Gussago – Sonatas for four, six, and eight (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Hans Leo Hassler – {{lang|de|Kirchengesäng}} for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), a collection of sacred songs
  • Sigismondo d'India – First book of {{lang|it|villanelle alla napolitana}} for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Costantino Vitale)
  • Robert Jones – Ultimum vale, with a triplicity of musicke...
  • Claude Le Jeune
  • Second book of 50 psalms for three voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Airs for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Second book of airs for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Claudio Merulo – Third book of {{lang|it|ricercari da cantare}} for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
  • Pomponio Nenna – Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sotile)
  • Asprilio Pacelli – {{lang|la|Sacrae cantiones}}, book 1 (Venice, Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
  • Franciscus Pappus – {{lang|la|Sacrae cantiones}}, book 1 (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
  • Vincenzo Passerini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Orfeo Vecchi – {{lang|la|Cantiones sacrae}} for five voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
  • Thomas Weelkes – Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices

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