1620 in music
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Events
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Popular music
- perhaps around this time "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (second version)
Publications
- Agostino Agazzari – {{lang|it|Stille soavi di celeste aurora...}}, Op. 19 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of madrigals
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio – {{lang|it|Rime sacre concertate}} (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
- Adriano Banchieri – First book of masses and motets arranged for one bass and two tenor voices with organ, Op. 42 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Aurelio Bonelli – Masses and motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Antonio Cifra
- {{lang|la|Psalmi Sacrique Concentus}} for eight voices (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
- Motets for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
- Manuel Rodrigues Coelho – Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck), the earliest keyboard music printed in Portugal{{cite book |last1=Esses |first1=Maurice |title=Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance |date=1992 |publisher=Pendragon Press |isbn=9780945193081 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_HDx_z2AaIC&pg=PA47|language=en}}
- Christoph Demantius
- {{lang|la|Threnodiae}} for four, five, and six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a collection of funeral music
- {{lang|de|Hochzeitliche Concert-Motet}} for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Augustus von Schönberg and Ursula Haubold on March 6
- {{lang|de|Frommer Eheleut Hochzeit Geschenck}} for eight voices (Freiberg Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johann Hassen and Susanna Horn on May 30
- Richard Dering
- Canzonettas for four voice with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
- Canzonettas for three voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
- Melchior Franck
- {{lang|de|Neues Hochzeitgesang (Gott wird die Braut erhaschen) auss dem alten Christlichen Gesang}} for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
- {{lang|de|Schöner trostreicher Text ausz dem 15. Capittel Syrachs}} for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a wedding motet
- Michelagnolo Galilei – {{lang|it|Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto}} (Munich){{cite web |last1=Galilei |first1=Michelangelo |last2=Chauvel |first2=Claude |title=Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17491867 |website=National Library of Australia |publisher=Genève : Minkoff |accessdate=23 August 2018 |language=English |date=1988}}
- Pierre Guédron – Fifth book of {{lang|fr|airs de cours}} for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
- Scipione Lacorcia – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
- Ivan Lukačić – {{lang|la|Sacrae cantiones}} for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Gardano), a collection of motets
- Carlo Milanuzzi – {{lang|it|Aurea Corona di scherzi poetici scelti da la Ghirlanda dell' Aurora}} for two, three, and four voices with basso continuo, Op. 3 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
- Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
- {{lang|la|Venite exsultemus Domino}} for three voices and organ bass (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
- {{lang|it|Salmi vespertini}} for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
- Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Second book of madrigals to five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
- Martin Peerson – Private musicke, or the first booke of ayres and dialogues, contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)
Births
- September 6 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
- probable – Adam Drese, bass viol player and composer (d. 1701)
Deaths
- March 1 – Thomas Campion, composer and poet (born 1567)
- March 25 – Johannes Nucius, composer and music theorist (born c. 1556)
- August 2 – Carolus Luython, composer (born 1557)
- date unknown
- Thomas Adams, music publisher (born c. 1566)
- Joachim van den Hove, composer (born c.1567)
- probable – Girolamo Belli, composer and music teacher (born 1552)