1584 in music

Publications

 * Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
 * Giammateo Asola
 * Secundum pars continens officium hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Sacrae cantiones in totius anni solennitatibus... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Girolamo Belli – I furti amorosi (The Loving Thefts), second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), contains compositions based on quotes from famous madrigals
 * Giulio Belli – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giuseppe Caimo – Second book of canzonette for four voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
 * Girolamo Conversi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Camillo Cortellini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi)
 * Girolamo Dalla Casa – Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana, 2 vols. (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Vincenzo Galilei
 * Fronimo Dialogo, revised edition (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Contrapunti for two voices or instruments (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
 * Francisco Guerrero – Vespers (Rome: Domenico Basa)
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations and Benedictus for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Orlande de Lassus
 * Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the penitential psalms
 * Continuation du mellange for three, four, five, six, and ten voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of chansons and madrigals
 * Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Luca Marenzio
 * Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
 * Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
 * First book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Rinaldo del Mel
 * First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
 * Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Philippe de Monte – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Claudio Monteverdi – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Jakob Paix - Missa ad imitationem mottetae in illo tempore Joan Moutonis for four voices (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of motets for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
 * Benedetto Pallavicino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi
 * Cantiones for five, eight, ten, and more voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
 * Nawe Kurtzweilige Deutsche Lieder (New Entertaining German Songs) for five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)

Classical music

 * Paschal de l'Estocart – Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum

Births

 * May 27 – Michael Altenburg, German baroque composer (died 1640)
 * date unknown
 * Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organist, composer, and theorist (died 1654)
 * Andreas Berger, German composer (died 1656)
 * Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

Deaths

 * September/October – Gioseppe Caimo, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
 * date unknown
 * Paolo Aretino, Venetian sacred music composer and choirmaster (born 1508)
 * Pietro Vinci, composer (born 1535)
 * probable
 * Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian singer and noblewoman (born 1547)
 * Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer (born c.1540)