1677 in music

The year 1677 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * September 10 – Henry Purcell is appointed a musician to the court of Charles II of England.
 * Charles Davenant's "semi-opera" Circe, with music by composer John Banister, is performed in London by the Duke's Company in May.
 * Nikolay Diletsky publishes Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (Грамматика музикийского пения, "A grammar of musical song").
 * Fabian Stedman publishes Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing in England.

Publications

 * Giovanni Battista Bassani – Balletti, Correnti, Gighe e Sarabande a due violini e basso continuo, Op.1
 * Johann Melchior Gletle – Expeditionis musicae classis IV, Op.5
 * Nicolas Lebègue – Pièces de Clavecin, Premier Livre
 * Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti, Op.7.
 * Stefano Pasino – Guida e consequenti dell'opera composta in canoni ... cioè Salmi a 4. voci C A T B..., Op. 7 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)

Classical music

 * David Funck – Stricturæ viola-di gambicæ
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully – Te Deum, first performed on September 9, for the baptism of Lully's son
 * Georg Muffat – Violin Sonata in D major
 * Alessandro Poglietti – Rossignolo
 * Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz – Luz y Norte

Opera

 * Carlo Grossi – La Giocasta, regina d'Armenia
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully – Isis

Births

 * February 2 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (died 1745)
 * February 4 – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer, second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1731)
 * February 26 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (died 1745)
 * June 18 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer, brother of Giovanni Bononcini (died 1726)
 * September 27 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer (died 1754)
 * date unknown – Christian Petzold, organist and composer (died c.1733)

Deaths

 * March – Robert Cambert, opera composer (born c.1628)
 * August – Matthew Locke, composer (born 1621)
 * November 11 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (born 1619)
 * date unknown – Robert Cambert, composer of opera (born 1628)