1606 in music

The year 1606 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * January 5 – The nuptial masque Hymenaei, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, is performed in London.

Publications

 * Agostino Agazzari
 * Sacrae cantiones... liber quartus (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
 * Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Gregor Aichinger
 * Mass for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
 * Vulnera Christi for three and four voices (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
 * Fasciculus sacrarum harmoniarum quatuor vocum (Dillingen: Adam Metzler)
 * Richard Allison – An howres recreation in Musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (London: John Windet)
 * Felice Anerio – Responsoria (Rome: Aloysio Zannetti)
 * Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigali di diversi autori for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a song for two tenors
 * John Bartlet – A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke (London: John Windet), a collection of lute songs for 1, 2, & 4 voices
 * Sethus Calvisius – Herr Gott wer kan aussgründen for four voices (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), a motet
 * Giovanni Paolo Cima – Partito de ricercari, & canzoni alla francese (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
 * Camillo Cortellini – Psalms for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Christian Erbach – Modorum sacrorum tripertitorum, quibus solennium sacrorum per annum initia for five voices, parts 2 & 3 (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer), a collection of introits, alleluias, and post-communion songs
 * Giacomo Finetti – Orationes vespertinae for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), music for Vespers
 * Marco da Gagliano – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Konrad Hagius – Canticum Virginis intemeratae (ie. Magnificat) for four, five, and six voices (Dillingen: Adam Meltzer)
 * Sigismondo d'India – First book of madrigals for five voices (Milan: Agostino Tradate)
 * Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
 * Second book of hymns for four voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
 * Sixth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
 * Claude Le Jeune
 * Pseaumes en vers mesurez for two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
 * Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde (Eight-line poems on the vanity and inconstancy of the world) for three and four voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
 * Tiburtio Massaino – Sacri modulorum concentus for eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, and sixteen voices, Op. 31 (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
 * Ascanio Mayone – First book of ricercars for three voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile)
 * Claudio Merulo – Second book of canzoni d'intavolatura d'organo (Venice: Angelo Gardano & fratelli), published posthumously
 * Girolamo Montesardo – Nuova inventione d'intavolatura per sonare li balletti sopra la chitarra spanuola, published in Florence, the first printed source of alfabeto notation for the guitar
 * Nicola Parma – Motets for eight and twelve voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Serafino Patta - Missa, psalmi, motecta ac litaniae in honorem Deiparae Virginis... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Second book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie della romana for two voices (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)

Classical music

 * Agostino Agazzari – Eumelio (oratorio), premiered in Rome at the Roman Seminary during Carnival, published in Venice by Ricciardo Amadino
 * John Coprario – Funeral Teares for one and two voices (London: John Windet for William Barley for John Browne), written on the death of the Earl of Devonshire (April 3, 1606).

Opera

 * Andrea Cima – La Gentile

Births

 * date unknown
 * William Child, organist and composer (d. 1697)
 * Johannes Khuen, poet and composer (d. 1675)
 * Urbán de Vargas, composer (d. 1656)

Deaths

 * January 28 – Guillaume Costeley, composer (b. c.1530)
 * September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, composer and music editor (born c. 1553)
 * date unknown
 * Jan Trojan Turnovský, composer (born c.1550)
 * Georgius Nigrinus, music publisher
 * probable – Pellegrino Micheli, violin maker (born c.1530)