1608 in music

The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works.

Events

• February 9 – The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid , written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features the music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger. ^[1]
• June 4 – Claudio Monteverdi's latest work, Il ballo delle ingrate , is given its first performance in Mantua as part of the wedding celebrations for Francesco Gonzaga (the son of Monteverdri's patron Duke Vincenzo of Mantua) and Margaret of Savoy. ^[2] In the same year, Monteverdi asks to be allowed to resign his post with the Gonzaga family.

Classical music

• none listed

Publications

• Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Costanzo Antegnati – L'Antegnata, Op. 16 (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli), a collection of intabulated ricercars for the organ
• Adriano Banchieri – Festino nella sera del giovedi grasso avanti cena, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a madrigal comedy
• Giulio Belli – Missae sacrae for four, five, six, and eight voices with continuo (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
• Antonio Cifra – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Christoph Demantius – Conviviorum deliciae for six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann), a collection of dance music
• Juan Esquivel Barahona
  • First book of masses (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
  • Motecta festorum et dominicarum cum communi sanctorum for four, five, six, and eight voices (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
• Melchior Franck
  • Geistliche Gesäng und Melodeyen (Sacred Songs and Melodies) for five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), mostly setting texts from the Song of Songs
  • Neue Musicalische Intraden for various instruments but especially violas, in six parts (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
  • Cantica gratulatoria for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding song
  • Der CXXI. Psalm for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a setting of Psalm 121
  • Neues Echo for eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • Dialogus metricus for seven voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a Christmas motet
• Girolamo Frescobaldi
  • Il primo libro de' madrigali
  • Primo libro delle fantasie
• Marco da Gagliano – Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
• Bartholomäus Gesius – Dictum ex Psalmo XXXIIII. De excubiis et custodia Angelorum for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a wedding motet
• Gioseffo Guami – Second book of motets for choir and instruments (Milan: heirs of Agostino Tradate)
• Pierre Guédron – Airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
• Cesario Gussago – Sonatas for four, six, and eight (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Hans Leo Hassler – Kirchengesäng for four voices (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann), a collection of sacred songs
• Sigismondo d'India – First book of villanelle alla napolitana for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino & Costantino Vitale)
• Robert Jones – Ultimum vale, with a triplicity of musicke...
• Claude Le Jeune
  • Second book of 50 psalms for three voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Airs for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
  • Second book of airs for three, four, five, and six voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
• Claudio Merulo – Third book of ricercari da cantare for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
• Pomponio Nenna – Seventh book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sotile)
• Asprilio Pacelli – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Venice, Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
• Franciscus Pappus – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
• Vincenzo Passerini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Orfeo Vecchi – Cantiones sacrae for five voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
• Thomas Weelkes – Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – L'Arianna (mostly lost)
• Marco da Gagliano – La Dafne

Births

• date unknown – Francisco Lopez Capillas, Mexican composer (died 1674)

Deaths

• October 26 – Philipp Nicolai, composer (born 1556)
• date unknown
  • Luca Bati, composer (born 1546)
  • Peter Lupo, court musician and composer, son of Ambrose Lupo
  • Simone Verovio, printer of music books

References

1. Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
2. Paolo Fabbri Monteverdi, translated by Tim Carter (Cambridge University Press, 1994) p.99