1610 in music

• Girolamo Diruta dedicates part 2 of his treatise, Il transilvano, to Leonora Orsini Sforza. This is the last record of Diruta.

• Adriano Banchieri – {{lang|it|Vezzo di perle musicali}}, Op. 23 (Necklace of musical pearls) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of motets
• Bartolomeo Barbarino
• Third book of {{lang|it|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 {{lang|it|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 – {{lang|de|Zwey Epithalamia, zu Glückwünschung zur Hochzeit}} (Two epithalamia as congratulations on the marriage) (Erfurt: Martin Wittel)
• April 23 – {{lang|de|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 – {{lang|it|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 – {{lang|la|Corona harmonica}} for six voices or instruments (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), contains settings of selections from the Gospels for the whole year
• Eustache Du Caurroy
• {{lang|fr|Meslanges de la musique}} (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of psalm settings, published posthumously
• {{lang|fr|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 – {{lang|el|Epithalamion}} {{lang|la|in honorem nuptiarum Thomae Hoikendorphii & Elisabethae Foltelij compositum}} (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• Melchior Franck
• {{lang|de|Musikalische Fröligkeit von etlichen Neuen lustigen Deutschen Gesängen, Täntzen, Galliarden und Concerten}} for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
• {{lang|la|Flores musicales}} for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
• {{lang|la|Gratulationes musicae}} for three, four, and five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday song
• Bartholomäus Gesius – {{lang|la|Cantiones sacrae chorales}} for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
• Cesario Gussago – {{lang|la|Psalmi ad vesperas solemnitatum totius anni}} (Vespers psalms for the whole year) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Andreas Hakenberger – {{lang|de|Neue Deutsche Gesänge}} (New German Songs) for five voices (Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld), a collection of madrigals
• Sigismondo d'India
• {{lang|la|Novi concentus ecclesiastici}} for two and three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of sacred songs
• Second book of {{lang|la|sacrae concentus}} for three, four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of {{lang|it|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 – {{lang|it|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)

• Georg Patermann – Harmonia for ten voices, to commemorate the wedding of Peter Fueß and Wendula Linsing

• Giordano Giacobbi – L'Andromeda{{cite web | url=http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/G.html | title=Opera Composers: G }}

• 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){{cite web |title=Henry Du Mont (1610–1684) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/13893501/henry_du_mont/ |website=data.bnf.fr |accessdate=26 July 2019}}
• Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (died 1696){{cite book |last1=Don |first1=Randel |title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music |date=1996 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674372993 |page=479 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA479|language=en}}

• May 2 – Paolo Virchi, organist and composer (born 1551)
• May 24 – Joachim a Burck, composer and Lutheran hymnodist (born 1546)

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