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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.)
Encomium verbo incarnato (Ingolstadt, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo.
Officium angeli custodis (Dillingen, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo, dedicated to Maximilian Fugger.
Giovanni Andreini, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, Alessandro Ghivizzani – Musiche de alcuni eccellentissimi Musici composte per la Maddalena (Venice, Bartolomeo Magni) "Sacra Rappresentazione" (i.e. an oratorio).
Fourth book of Sacri concentus (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Diporti musicali, madrigals for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
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 – Novus Partus, sive Concertationes Musicae (Augsburg, D. Franck), collection of lute music.
Bernardino Borlasca – First book of Ardori spirituali for two, three, and four voices, Op. 7 (Munich: Anna Berg)
William Brade – 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 – 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."
Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)
References
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).
Susi Jeans and O.W. Neighbour, "Bull , John ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Monique Rollin, "Gautier , Jacques ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
