1589 in music

Events

 * November 30 – Luca Marenzio returns to Rome from Florence.
 * The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany is celebrated with six staged intermezzi, featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri and Giovanni de' Bardi, which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.
 * Tarquinia Molza is dismissed from the court of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with the composer Giaches de Wert.

Publications

 * Costanzo Antegnati – Second book of masses for six and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Ippolito Baccusi – Third book of masses for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Ludovico Balbi – Musicale essercitio for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of madrigals
 * Girolamo Belli – Sacrae cantiones (Motets) for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Giulio Belli – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * William Byrd
 * Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1, for five voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 * Songs of Sundrie Natures for three, four, five, and six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 * Madrigals for six voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
 * Johannes Eccard – Neue Lieder (New Songs) for four and five voices (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
 * Andrea Gabrieli
 * Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously, includes a few pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli
 * Madrigali et ricercari for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), published posthumously
 * Jacobus Gallus
 * Harmoniarum moralium (Moral Harmonies) for four voices, book one (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
 * Epicedion harmonicum (Prague: Georg Nigrinus), a funeral motet
 * Ruggiero Giovannelli – Gli sdruccioli for four voices, book two (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a book of madrigals
 * Francisco Guerrero
 * Second book of motets for four, five, six, and eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Canciones y villanescas espirituales for three, four, and five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Konrad Hagius – Die Psalmen Davids for four voices (Dusseldorf: Albert Byuss), sets the translation by Kaspar Ulenberg
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Liber Sacrarum Cantionum for seven to sixteen voices with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Paolo Isnardi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giovanni de Macque – Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Philippe de Monte – Second book of madrigali spirituali for six and seven voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Jakob Paix – Thesaurus Motetarum, a collection of keyboard arrangements of motets by various composers (Stuttgart, Bernhart Jobin)
 * Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hymni totius anni... for four voices
 * Giovanni Maria Papalia – First book of madrigals for five voices (Messina: Fausto Bufalini)
 * Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola – Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Scipione Riccio)
 * Andreas Pevernage – First book of chansons for five voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
 * Salamone Rossi – a collection of 19 canzonette

Classical music

 * Giulio Caccini – Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna

Births

 * bap. July 2 – Guilielmus Messaus, Flemish composer (d. 1640)
 * date unknown – Giovanni Battista Fontana, violinist and composer (d. 1630)

Deaths

 * date unknown – Christian Hollander, kapellmeister at Oudenarde (born c.1510)
 * probable
 * Thomas Palfreyman, author and musician
 * Tansen, Hindustani composer and vocalist (born c.1493/1506)