1608 in music
The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works.
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Events
- February 9 – The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The masque features the music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.[1]
- June 4 – Claudio Monteverdi's latest work, Il ballo delle ingrate, is given its first performance in Mantua as part of the wedding celebrations for Francesco Gonzaga (the son of Monteverdri's patron Duke Vincenzo of Mantua) and Margaret of Savoy. [2] In the same year, Monteverdi asks to be allowed to resign his post with the Gonzaga family.
Classical music
- none listed
Publications
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio – Second book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Costanzo Antegnati – L'Antegnata, Op. 16 (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli), a collection of intabulated ricercars for the organ
- Adriano Banchieri – Festino nella sera del giovedi grasso avanti cena, Op. 18 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a madrigal comedy
- Giulio Belli – Missae sacrae for four, five, six, and eight voices with continuo (Venice: Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
- Antonio Cifra – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Christoph Demantius – Conviviorum deliciae for six voices and instruments (Nuremberg: Balthasar Scherff for David Kauffmann), a collection of dance music
- Juan Esquivel Barahona
- First book of masses (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
- Motecta festorum et dominicarum cum communi sanctorum for four, five, six, and eight voices (Salamanca: Arti Taberniel)
- Melchior Franck
- Geistliche Gesäng und Melodeyen (Sacred Songs and Melodies) for five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), mostly setting texts from the Song of Songs
- Neue Musicalische Intraden for various instruments but especially violas, in six parts (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
- Cantica gratulatoria for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a wedding song
- Der CXXI. Psalm for five voices (Coburg: Kaspar Bertsch), a setting of Psalm 121
- Neues Echo for eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
- Dialogus metricus for seven voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a Christmas motet
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Il primo libro de' madrigali
- Primo libro delle fantasie
- Hans Leo Hassler – Kirchengesäng, a collection of sacred songs, published in Nuremberg
- Robert Jones – Ultimum vale, with a triplicity of musicke...
- Asprilio Pacelli – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Venice, Angelo Gardano e fratelli)
- Franciscus Pappus – Sacrae cantiones, book 1 (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
- Vincenzo Passerini – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Thomas Weelkes – Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices
Opera
- Claudio Monteverdi – L'Arianna (mostly lost)
- Marco da Gagliano – La Dafne
Births
- date unknown – Francisco Lopez Capillas, Mexican composer (died 1674)
Deaths
- October 26 – Philipp Nicolai, composer (born 1556)
- date unknown
- Luca Bati, composer (born 1546)
- Peter Lupo, court musician and composer, son of Ambrose Lupo
- Simone Verovio, printer of music books
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References
- Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
- Paolo Fabbri Monteverdi, translated by Tim Carter (Cambridge University Press, 1994) p.99
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