1584 in music
# 1584 in music

## Publications

* Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
* Giammateo Asola
   * Secundum pars continens officium hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
   * Sacrae cantiones in totius anni solennitatibus... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Girolamo Belli – I furti amorosi (The Loving Thefts), second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), contains compositions based on quotes from famous madrigals
* Giulio Belli – Canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giuseppe Caimo – Second book of canzonette for four voices (Milan: Pietro Tini)
* Girolamo Conversi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Camillo Cortellini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Bologna: Giovanni Rossi)
* Girolamo Dalla Casa – Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana, 2 vols. (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Vincenzo Galilei
   * Fronimo Dialogo, revised edition (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
   * Contrapunti for two voices or instruments (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti)
* Francisco Guerrero – Vespers (Rome: Domenico Basa)
* Marc'Antonio Ingegneri – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Paolo Isnardi – Lamentations and Benedictus for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Orlande de Lassus
   * Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales for five voices (Munich: Adam Berg), a setting of the penitential psalms
   * Continuation du mellange for three, four, five, six, and ten voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a collection of chansons and madrigals
* Cristofano Malvezzi – First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Luca Marenzio
   * Second book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
   * First book of madrigali spirituali for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
   * Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
   * First book of villanelle for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Rinaldo del Mel
   * First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
   * First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
* Claudio Merulo – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Philippe de Monte – Fifth book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Claudio Monteverdi – First book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* Jakob Paix - Missa ad imitationem mottetae in illo tempore Joan Moutonis for four voices (Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel)
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Fifth book of motets for five voices (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
* Benedetto Pallavicino – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
* Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi
   * Cantiones for five, eight, ten, and more voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)
   * Nawe Kurtzweilige Deutsche Lieder (New Entertaining German Songs) for five voices (Dresden: Matthäus Stöckel)

## Classical music

* Paschal de l'Estocart – Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum

## Births

* May 27 – Michael Altenburg, German baroque composer (died 1640)
* date unknown
   * Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organist, composer, and theorist (died 1654)
   * Andreas Berger, German composer (died 1656)
   * Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

## Deaths

* September/October – Gioseppe Caimo, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
* date unknown
   * Paolo Aretino, Venetian sacred music composer and choirmaster (born 1508)
   * Pietro Vinci, composer (born 1535)
* probable
   * Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian singer and noblewoman (born 1547)
   * Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer (born c.1540)
