1602 in music

Events

 * Asprilio Pacelli is appointed maestro di capella of St Peter's Basilica

Publications

 * February – Giulio Caccini – Le nuove musiche (The New Music), published in Florence
 * Agostino Agazzari – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
 * Gregor Aichinger – Divinae laudes ex floridis Jacobi Pontani potissimum decerptae (Augsburg: Officina Praetoriana), settings of selections from the Floridorum of, for three voices
 * Felice Anerio
 * Second book of Sacri hymni et cantica (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
 * Second book of madrigals for six voices (Rome: Luigi Zannetti)
 * Giammateo Asola
 * Psalmi ad vespertinas omnium solemnitatum horas (Vespertine psalms for all solemnities) for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Magnificat, Salve Regina, and Regina caeli
 * Hymnodia vespertina in maioribus anni solemnitatibus... (Vespertine hymns for the major solemnities of the year) for eight voices (two choirs) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Lamentations for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi qui diebus festivus a Sancta Romana Ecclesia in vesperis decantari solent for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Giovanni Bassano – First book of madrigals and canzonettas for soprano or bass voice with lute or other plucked instrument (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Lodovico Bellanda – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Aurelio Bonelli – First book of ricercars and canzonas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Christoph Demantius – Trias precum vespertinarum for four, five, and six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Catharina Dieterich for Konrad Agricola), a collection of music for Vespers
 * Scipione Dentice – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Antonio Pace)
 * Stefano Felis – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Melchior Franck
 * Musicalischer Bergkreyen for four voices (Nuremberg: Konrad Baur), a collection of secular partsongs
 * Farrago for six voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Dieterich), a collection of secular partsongs
 * Contrapuncti composti for four voices (Nurember: Konrad Baur), a collection of psalms and other church songs in German
 * Marco da Gagliano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Bartholomäus Gesius – Ein Gesang Vom Lob und Preiß der Edlenfreyen Kunst Musica for six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann), a song in praise of Music
 * Pierre Guédron – Airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Ballard)
 * Claude Le Jeune – First book of psalms for three voices (Paris: widow of R. Ballard)
 * Alonso Lobo – First book of masses (Madrid: Joannes Flandre)
 * Duarte Lobo – Opuscula Natalitiae noctis responsoria for four and eight voices (Antwerp: Plantin), a collection of liturgical music
 * Tomaso Pecci – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), also contains two pieces by Mariano Tantucci
 * Andreas Pevernage – Masses for five, six, and seven voices (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
 * Costanzo Porta – Hymnodia sacra for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of hymns for the whole year
 * Hieronymus Praetorius – Magnificats for eight voices (Hamburg: Philip von Ohr)
 * Orfeo Vecchi
 * Third book of masses for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
 * La Donna vestita di sole, coronata di stelle, calcante la luna (Milan: the heirs of Simon Tini & Giovanni Francesco Besozzi), a madrigal cycle
 * Lodovico Grossi da Viadana – Cento concerti ecclesiastici (One Hundred Church Concertos), the first major publication to make extensive use of figured bass

Opera

 * Giulio Caccini – Euridice (not the same as the 1600 opera of the same name by Jacopo Peri, to which Caccini contributed some of the music)

Births

 * February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
 * April – William Lawes, English composer (died 1645)
 * probable – Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

 * January 6 – Andreas Raselius, German composer (born c. 1563)
 * March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1563)
 * October – Thomas Morley, English composer, music theorist and publisher (born c. 1557)
 * November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (born c. 1545)