1627 in music

The year 1627 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * January 13 – Tarquinio Merula is officially appointed maestro di cappella in Cremona, after having been elected provisionally the previous year.
 * June 21 – Christopher Gibbons election as a scholar of the Charterhouse is approved by the Governors, following his nomination in January through the Signet Office.

Published music

 * Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
 * Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
 * Carlo Farina
 * Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
 * Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
 * Melchior Franck
 * Deliciae convivales for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friederich Gruner), a collection of intradas
 * Neues fröhliches musikalisches Concert for seven voices and organ bass (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
 * Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung auß den recht schönen tröstlichen Worten Esai. 43. Fürchte dich nicht denn ich habe dich erlöset for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
 * Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Carlo Milanuzzi – Concerto sacro di salmi intieri for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
 * Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)

Classical music

 * Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il secondo libro di toccate
 * Johann Ulrich Steigleder – Tabulaturbuch, 40 variations on Vater unser

Opera

 * Heinrich Schütz – Dafne

Births

 * April 9 – Johann Caspar Kerll, organist and composer (died 1693)

Deaths

 * March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer (born 1555)
 * May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
 * August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557)
 * November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer (born 1565)
 * December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
 * date unknown
 * Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer (born 1556)
 * Leone Leoni, composer (born c.1560)