1588 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• 8 July – Thomas Morley received the degree Bachelor of Music from Oxford University
• Ferdinando de' Medici appoints Emilio de' Cavalieri artistic superintendent of the Medici court in Florence

Publications

• Blasius Amon – 4 Masses (Vienna: Michael Apffl)
• Giammateo Asola
  • Masses for eight voices, 2 vols. (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
  • 4 Masses for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
  • Lamentations (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Ippolito Baccusi – First book of masses for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Bassano – Il fiore dei capricci musicali for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), a collection of instrumental pieces
• William Byrd – Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie for five voices (London: Thomas East for William Byrd)
• Giovanni Croce – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Giovanni Dragoni – First book of villanelle for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
• Placido Falconio – Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Stefano Felis – First book of masses for six voices (Prague: Georg Nigrinus)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First book of Lamentations (Rome: Alessandro Gardano)
• Benedetto Pallavicino – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giuliano Paratico – Second book of canzonettas for three voices (Brescia: Pietro Maria Marchetti)
• Giaches de Wert – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices
• Nicholas Yonge (ed.) – Musica Transalpina, (London: Thomas East), a collection of Italian madrigals with English translated lyrics, credited with sparking the English Madrigal School
• The Walsingham Consort Books are copied, probably by Daniel Bacheler, who was only 15 or 16 years old at the time and contributed seven of his own pieces to this collection for broken consort

Classical music

• Krzysztof Klabon – Pieśni Kalliopy Slowieńskiey: na terażnieysze pod Byczyną zwycięstwo, a cycle of six songs for voice and lute to texts by Stanisław Grochowski, celebrating the Battle of Byczyna, which ended the War of the Polish Succession

Births

• June 9 (bapt.) – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and music theorist (d. 1666)
• June 30 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist and composer (d. 1649)
• September 10 (bapt.) – Nicholas Lanier, English lutenist and composer (d. 1666)
• September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician and music theorist (d. 1648)

Deaths

• August 12 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), composer (b. 1543)