1602 in music

Events

• Asprilio Pacelli is appointed maestro di capella of St Peter's Basilica

Publications

• February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
• Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
• Gregor Aichinger – Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of , for three voices
• Felice Anerio
  • Second book of Sacri hymni et cantica (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
  • Second book of madrigals for six voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Psalmi ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
  • Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Christoph Demantius – Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
• Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
• Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Melchior Franck
  • Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
  • Farrago for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
  • Contrapuncti composti for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
• Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preiß der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
• Pierre Guédron – Airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
• Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
• Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
• Duarte Lobo – Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
• Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
• Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Costanzo Porta – Hymnodia sacra for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
• Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
• Orfeo Vecchi
  • Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
  • La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

• Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

• February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
• April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
• probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

• January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
• March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
• October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
• November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)

Notes

References

1. ''Le nuove musiche was published in 1602 per the [[Gregorian calendar]]. Some sources list [[1601 in music. 1601]], based on the [[Julian calendar]], as the publication date.''
2. "Francesco Cavalli". [[Encyclopædia Britannica]].