1617 in music

• January 6 – The Vision of Delight, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
• January 16 – Thomas Weelkes, organist at Chichester Cathedral, is dismissed for being drunk and disorderly.
• February 22 – Lovers Made Men, another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)
• August 30 – Alessandro Grandi is appointed singer at San Marco, Venice, at a salary of 80 ducats per annum, under choirmaster Claudio Monteverdi.Jerome Roche and Roark Miller, "Grandi, Alessandro (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• December 29 – John Bull is appointed cathedral organist in Antwerp, with a salary of 80 florins a year plus a special supplement of 20 florins.Susi Jeans and O.W. Neighbour, "Bull [Boul, Bul, Bol], John [Jan] [Bouville, Bonville, Jean]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
• Lutenist and composer Jacques Gaultier flees to England from France after being involved in a murder.Monique Rollin, "Gautier [Gaultier], Jacques [Gwaltier, James]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).

• Agostino Agresta – First book of madrigals for six voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
• Gregor Aichinger
• {{lang|la|Encomium verbo incarnato}} (Ingolstadt, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo.[http://mldd.blogspot.com/2015_08_30_archive.html Classical Music Diary, 8-30-2015, accessed 11-7-2017]
• {{lang|la|Officium angeli custodis}} (Dillingen, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo, dedicated to Maximilian Fugger.[http://mldd.blogspot.com/2015_08_30_archive.html Classical Music Diary, 8-30-2015, accessed 11-7-2017]
• Giovanni Andreini, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, Alessandro Ghivizzani – {{lang|it|Musiche de alcuni eccellentissimi Musici composte per la Maddalena}} (Venice, Bartolomeo Magni) "Sacra Rappresentazione" (i.e. an oratorio).[http://imslp.org/wiki/La_Maddalena_(Various) IMSLP La Maddalena, accessed 11-8-2017]
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio
• Fourth book of {{lang|la|Sacri concentus}} (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• {{lang|it|Diporti musicali}}, madrigals for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• {{lang|it|Selva armonica}} (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of motets, madrigals, canzonettas, dialogues, and arias
• Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigals for three voices and theorbo or harpsichord (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes some madrigals for solo voice
• Girolamo Belli – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 22 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Jean Baptiste Besard – {{lang|la|Novus Partus, sive Concertationes Musicae}} (Augsburg, D. Franck), collection of lute music.[https://www.loc.gov/item/2011567025/ Library of Congress, Notated Music accessed 11-8-2017]
• Bernardino Borlasca – First book of {{lang|it|Ardori spirituali}} for two, three, and four voices, Op. 7 (Munich: Anna Berg)
• William Brade – {{lang|de|Newe Außerlesene liebliche Branden, Intraden, Mascharaden, Balletten, All'manden, Couranten, Volten, Auffzuege und fremde Taentze}} for five instruments (Hamburg: Michael Hering), a collection of dance music
• Antonio Brunelli – {{lang|la|Sacra cantica}} for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Thomas Campion – The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, Thomas Snodham), "so as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion."Full Online Text at University of Michigan Early English Books Online,accessed 11-7-2017 [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A17882.0001.001?view=toc]
• Antonio Cifra
• Fifth book of {{lang|it|Li diversi scherzi}} for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 23 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Camillo Cortellini – Masses for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Richard Dering – {{lang|la|Cantiones sacrae}} for five voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
• Melchior Franck
• {{lang|de|Musicalischer Frewdenschall}} for twelve voices (Coburg: Justus Coburg), a festival motet
• {{lang|de|Neues Hochzeit Gesang (Drey schöne ding sind), Auss dem 25. Capitel Syrachs}} for twelve voices in three choirs (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
• {{lang|la|Echus (Quaenam praesentas)}} for eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
• {{lang|de|Christliche Musicalische Glückwünschunge zu dem neuen Officio}} (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
• Marco da Gagliano – Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
• Pierre Guédron – Third book of {{lang|fr|airs de cours}} for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
• Andreas Hakenberger – {{lang|la|Harmonia Sacra}} for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices with organ bass (Frankfurt: Gottfried Tampach)
• Biagio Marini – Affetti musicali (Musical Affections), Op. 1 (Venice){{cite book |last=Palisca |first= Claude V. |title=Baroque Music |origyear=1968 |edition=3rd |series=Prentice Hall History of Music |year=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs |isbn=0-13-058496-7 |pages= 147}}
• Pietro Pace
• {{lang|it|Il secondo libro de scherzi, et arie spirituali...}}, Op. 14 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• {{lang|it|Madrigali a quattro et a cinque voci...}}, Op. 15 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Vincenzo Pace - {{lang|la|Sacrorum concentuum...}}, 3 books, Op. 1–3 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of madrigals to five voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
• Francesco Pasquali – {{lang|la|Sacrae cantiones...}}, Op. 2 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Enrico Antonio Radesca – Fifth book of canzonettas, madrigals and arias for one and two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Johann Hermann Schein – Banchetto musicale, newer … Padouanen, Gagliarden, Courenten und Allemanden à 5, auff allerley Instrumenten (Leipzig).{{cite book |last=Palisca |first= Claude V. |title=Baroque Music |origyear=1968 |edition=3rd |series=Prentice Hall History of Music |year=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs |isbn=0-13-058496-7 |pages= 213}}

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• Giordano Giacobbi – {{lang|it|Il Reno sacrificante}} [http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/G.html]

• April 3 – Antimo Liberati, Italian music theorist, composer, and contralto singer (d. 1692)

• February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian, poet, and composer (born 1549)
• April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)
• August 8 – Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (born 1542)
• August 16 – Giovanni Bassano, cornet player and composer (born c. 1560)
• date unknown
• Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpet player (born c. 1542)
• Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)

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