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The year 1609 in music involved some significant events.
Events
October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London). The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft. This collection follows his publication of the first rounds in English, Pammelia.
First book of motets for three voices, Op. 3 (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
Second book of madrigals and motets for solo voices with harpsichord, theorbo, and organ (Florence: Cristofano Marescotti)
Bernardino Borlasca – Scherzi musicali ecclesiastici sopra la cantica for three voices and continuo (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
William Brade – Newe außerlesene Paduanen, Galliarden, Canzonen, Allmand und Coranten (Hamburg: Michael Hering), a collection of dance music for five instruments
Eustache du Caurroy – Preces ecclesiasticae (Church prayers) (Paris: Pierre Ballard), two volumes of sacred music for three to seven voices
First book of motets for two, three, and four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Second book of motets for two, three, and four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Third book of motets for two, three, and four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
7 Psalms for four voices, Op. 7 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Fourth book of motets for two, three, and four voices, Op. 8 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Camillo Cortellini – Masses for four, five, six, and eight voices with basso continuo (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Christoph Demantius – Covivialium concentuum for six voices (Jena: Christoph Lippold for David Kauffmann), a collection of madrigals, canzonettas, and villanelle in German
Ayres for one and two voices with lute and bass instrument (London: Thomas Snodham for John Browne)
Lessons for 1. 2. and 3. viols (London: Thomas Snodham for John Browne), includes music for staged works by Ben Jonson
Giacomo Finetti – Omnia in nocte Nativitatis Domini nostri Iesu Christi, quae ad matinum spectant for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), music for Christmas
Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
Hymni patrum cum canticis sacris, latinis et germanicis, de praecipuis festis anniversarijs for four voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
Psalm 132 for eight voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a graduation motet
Psalm 128 for eight voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet
Sigismondo d'India – Le musiche da cantar solo (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo), songs for solo voice with accompaniment
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of madrigals for five voices with basso continuo (Rome: Pietro Manelfi)
Carolus Luython – First book of masses (Prague: Nicolaus Straus)
Tiburtio Massaino – Quaerimoniae cum responsoriis infra hebdomadam sanctam concinendae for five voices, Op. 34 (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
Ascanio Mayone – Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare (Naples: Giovanni Battista Gargano & Lucrezio Nucci), a collection of keyboard music
Claudio Merulo – 2 Masses for eight and twelve voices with organ bass (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
Simone Molinaro – Third book of motets for five voices with basso continuo (Venice: Alessandro Raverii)
