1592 in music

Events

 * November 13 – Lodovico Bassano marries Elizabeth Damon

Publications

 * Costanzo Antegnati – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Giammateo Asola
 * Cantus firmus masses for organ and choir (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Sacra, omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia for five voices (Venice:Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat
 * Paolo Bellasio – Villanellas for three voices, with lute tablature (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Valerio Bona – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Giovanni Croce – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Thomas East (ed.) – The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London: Thomas East), contains new settings by English composers, including Edward Blancks, Edmund Hooper, and John Dowland
 * Tiburtio Massaino
 * Sacri modulorum concentus for six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and twelve voices in two or three choirs with instruments (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * First book of motets for four voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
 * First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Claudio Merulo – First book of Canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of keyboard music
 * Philippe de Monte – Fifteenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Third book of madrigals for five voices) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Nicola Parma – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Riccardo Rognoni – Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte d'instrumenti et anco diversi passaggi per la semplice voce humana di Richardo Rogniono espulso di Val Tavegia. Venice.

Classical music

 * none listed

Births

 * date unknown
 * John Jenkins, English composer (died 1678)
 * Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian composer (died 1665)

Deaths

 * February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, diplomat and composer (b. c. 1536)
 * May – Giovanni Domenico da Nola, Neapolitan poet and composer (born c. 1510)
 * May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, theologian and musician (b. 1532)
 * July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, composer (b. c. 1547)
 * date unknown – Annibale Zoilo, singer and composer (b. c. 1537)