Publications

• Pietro Millioni and Lodovico Monte – Vero e facil modo d'imparare a sonare..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , published in Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  . A very popular songbook, it was reprinted many times and went to at least thirteen editions, the last being issued in 1737.

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , published in Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  
• Carlo Farina
  Carlo Farina
  Carlo Farina was an Italian composer, conductor and violinist of the Baroque era.-Life:Farina was born at Mantova. He presumably received his first lessons from his father, who was sonatore di viola at the court of the Gonzaga in Mantova. Later he got further education probably by Salomone Rossi...
  
  
  • Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
  • Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
• Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi
  Girolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
  
   – Il secondo libro di toccate
• Johann Ulrich Steigleder
  Johann Ulrich Steigleder
  Johann Ulrich Steigleder was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder , his father, and Utz Steigleder , his grandfather.Steigleder was born in Schwäbisch Hall on 22 March 1593...
  
   – Tabulaturbuch, 40 variations on Vater unser

Deaths

• March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi
  Lodovico Zacconi
  Lodovico Zacconi was an Italian-Austrian composer and musical theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras...
  
  , composer (born 1555)
• May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
  Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
  Lodovico Grossi da Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants...
  
  , Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
• August 21 – Jacques Mauduit
  Jacques Mauduit
  Jacques Mauduit was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand polychoral style of the Venetian School from Italy; he also composed a famous...
  
  , composer (born 1557)
• November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte
  Pedro Ruimonte
  Pedro Ruimonte was a Spanish composer and musician who spent much of his career in the Low Countries.-Early years:...
  
  , musician and composer (born 1565)
• December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
• date unknown
  • Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana
    Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana
    Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana , also known as Rahim was a composer in the times of Mughal emperor Akbar, and one of his main nine ministers in his court, also known as the Navaratnas; he is most known for his Hindi couplets and his books on Astrology...
    
    , poet and composer (born 1556)
  • Leone Leoni
    Leone Leoni (composer)
    Leone Leoni was a North Italian polyphonic composer who served as maestro di cappella at Vicenza cathedral from 1588. He composed motets for antiphonal choirs, some in many parts, with instrumental accompaniment...
    
    , composer (born c.1560)