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.[1] 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)
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.[1] 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)