1620 in music

Popular music

 * perhaps around this time "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" (second version)

Publications

 * Agostino Agazzari – Stille soavi di celeste aurora..., Op. 19 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of madrigals
 * Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Rime sacre concertate (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
 * Adriano Banchieri – First book of masses and motets arranged for one bass and two tenor voices with organ, Op. 42 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Aurelio Bonelli – Masses and motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Antonio Cifra
 * Psalmi Sacrique Concentus for eight voices (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
 * Motets for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
 * Manuel Rodrigues Coelho – Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa (Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeck), the earliest keyboard music printed in Portugal
 * Christoph Demantius
 * Threnodiae for four, five, and six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), a collection of funeral music
 * Hochzeitliche Concert-Motet for eight voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Augustus von Schönberg and Ursula Haubold on March 6
 * Frommer Eheleut Hochzeit Geschenck for eight voices (Freiberg Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johann Hassen and Susanna Horn on May 30
 * Richard Dering
 * Canzonettas for four voice with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
 * Canzonettas for three voices with basso continuo (Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse)
 * Melchior Franck
 * Neues Hochzeitgesang (Gott wird die Braut erhaschen) auss dem alten Christlichen Gesang for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding motet
 * Schöner trostreicher Text ausz dem 15. Capittel Syrachs for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a wedding motet
 * Michelagnolo Galilei – Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto (Munich)
 * Pierre Guédron – Fifth book of airs de cours for four and five voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard)
 * Scipione Lacorcia – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Naples: Costantino Vitale)
 * Ivan Lukačić – Sacrae cantiones for one, two, three, four, and five voices (Venice: Gardano), a collection of motets
 * Carlo Milanuzzi – Aurea Corona di scherzi poetici scelti da la Ghirlanda dell' Aurora for two, three, and four voices with basso continuo, Op. 3 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
 * Venite exsultemus Domino for three voices and organ bass (Assisi: Giacomo Salvi)
 * Salmi vespertini for four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
 * Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — Second book of madrigals to five voices (Palermo: Giovanni Battista Maringo)
 * Martin Peerson – Private musicke, or the first booke of ayres and dialogues, contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts (London: Thomas Snodham)

Births

 * September 6 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
 * probable – Adam Drese, bass viol player and composer (d. 1701)

Deaths

 * March 1 – Thomas Campion, composer and poet (born 1567)
 * March 25 – Johannes Nucius, composer and music theorist (born c. 1556)
 * August 2 – Carolus Luython, composer (born 1557)
 * date unknown
 * Thomas Adams, music publisher (born c. 1566)
 * Joachim van den Hove, composer (born c.1567)
 * probable – Girolamo Belli, composer and music teacher (born 1552)