1616 in music

Events

 * Johann Hermann Schein becomes cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig
 * Manuel Correia joins his father as a singer in the ducal capela at Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
 * Librettist Andrea Salvadori becomes court poet to the Medici family.

Musical groups formed

 * A collegium musicum is founded in Prague.

Publications

 * Gregor Aichinger – Triplex liturgiarum fasciculus e tribus ac diversis optimorum musicorum modulis concinnatus... (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius)
 * Bartolomeo Barbarino – Canzonettas for one and two voices, with some for solo voice, either soprano or tenor, with theorbo or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Valerio Bona – Lamentations for Holy Week with the Benedictus and Miserere for each day, for two choirs with continuo, Op. 22 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Bernardino Borlasca – Scala Iacob (Jacob's Ladder) for eight voices and various instruments, Op. 6 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of sacred songs for all solemnities of the year
 * Antonio Brunelli – Third book of Scherzi, arie, canzonette, e madrigali for one, two, and three voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Sethus Calvisius – Schwanengesang (Swan song) for eight voices (Leipzig: Lorenz Kober), a setting of Psalm 90 verse 10, published posthumously
 * Antonio Cifra – First book of Scherzi sacri for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 22 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
 * Ignazio Donati – Motetti a cinque voci in concerto (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Melchior Franck
 * Geistlichen Musicalischen Lustgartens Erster Theil for four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine voices or instruments (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of motets
 * Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem ersten Capitel deß Hohenlieds Salomonis for five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
 * Musicalische Glückwünschung for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
 * Zwey Newe Hochzeit Gesäng for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
 * Newes Hochzeit Gesang ausz dem 26. Capitel Sirachs for six voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a wedding motet
 * Tricinium Novum (Wie ein Kauffmann das Himmelreich) (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
 * Lilia Musicalia for four voices (Nuremberg: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann), a collection of secular songs and dances
 * Joachim van den Hove – Praeludia testudinis for two voices or violins (Leiden: Godefridus Basson)
 * Sigismondo d'India
 * Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Fifth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
 * Scipione Lacorcia – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Giacomo Carlino)
 * Luca Marenzio – Motets for five, six, and seven voices with organ bass (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), published posthumously
 * Simone Molinaro – Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum, Marcum, Lucam, et Ioannem (Loano: Francesco Castello)
 * Pietro Pace – Scherzi, arie, et madrigali a 1–4 v..., Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
 * Giuseppe Palazzotto e Tagliavia – First book of motets (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
 * Claudio Pari – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
 * Peter Philips
 * Deliciae sacrae (Sacred Delights) for two and three voices with organ bass (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
 * Les Rossignols spirituels (The Spiritual Nightengales), a collection of sacred songs for two voices with organ bass (Valenciennes: Jean Vervliet)
 * Hieronymus Praetorius – Liber Missarum (Hamburg: Henrico Carstens)
 * Nicolas Vallet – Le Secret des Muses, book 2

Classical music

 * Girolamo Frescobaldi – Peccavi super numerum, motet for 3 voices and basso continuo
 * Claudio Monteverdi – Tirsi e Clori (ballet)

Opera

 * Domenico Belli's' Orfeo dolente
 * Claudio Monteverdi – Le nozze di Tetide (lost)

Births

 * February 28 – Kaspar Förster, opera composer (d. 1673)
 * May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger, composer and organist (died 1667)
 * September – Jacques de Saint-Luc, lutenist and composer (died c.1710)
 * date unknown – Matthias Weckman, German composer (died 1674)
 * probable – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (died 1678)

Deaths

 * June 6 – Cornelis Schuyt, organist and composer (born 1557)
 * unknown date – Johann Steffens, German organist and composer (born c.1560)
 * probable
 * Krzysztof Klabon, composer, lutenist, and singer (born c.1550)
 * Giuliano Paratico, singer and chitarrone player (born c.1550)