1610 in music

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The year 1610 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Girolamo Diruta dedicates part 2 of his treatise, Il transilvano, to Leonora Orsini Sforza. This is the last record of Diruta.

Publications

• Adriano Banchieri – , Op. 23 (Necklace of musical pearls) (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), a collection of motets
• Bartolomeo Barbarino
  • Third book of for solo voice with theorbo, harpsichord, or other instruments (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes some canzonettas
  • First book of motets for solo voice, either soprano or tenor (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Lodovico Bellanda – Second book of (Music to sing with theorbo, harpsichord, and other instruments), for one and two voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
• Girolamo Belli – Psalms for five voices and continuo, Op. 20 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats and Marian litanies
• Joachim a Burck
  • January 28 – (Two epithalamia as congratulations on the marriage) (Erfurt: Martin Wittel)
  • April 23 – (Three Christian bridal songs) (Jena: Johann Weidner)
• Antonio Cifra – Vespers and motets for eight voices, Op. 9 (Rome: Bartolomeo Zannetti)
• Giovanni Paolo Cima – (Ecclesiastical concerti) for one, two, three and four voices with one for five and one for eight, together with a mass, two Magnificats, and six sonatas with 2 to 4 instruments and basso continuo (Milan: Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo)
• William Corkine – Ayres, to sing and play to the lute and basse violl (London: W. Stansby for John Browne), also includes dance music for the lyra viol
• Giovanni Croce – 9 Lamentations for Holy Week for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), published posthumously
• Christoph Demantius – for six voices or instruments (Leipzig: Abraham Lamberg), contains settings of selections from the Gospels for the whole year
• Eustache Du Caurroy
  • (Paris: Pierre Ballard), a collection of psalm settings, published posthumously
  • for three, four, five, and six parts (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
• Michael East – The Third Set Of Bookes ... to 5. and 6. parts: Apt both for Viols and Voyces
• Johannes Eccard – (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
• Melchior Franck
  • for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck)
  • for four, five, six, and eight voices (Nuremberg: David Kauffmann)
  • for three, four, and five voices (Coburg: Justus Hauck), a birthday song
• Bartholomäus Gesius – for four, five, and six voices (Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann)
• Cesario Gussago – (Vespers psalms for the whole year) for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Andreas Hakenberger – (New German Songs) for five voices (Danzig: Andreas Hünefeld), a collection of madrigals
• Sigismondo d'India
  • for two and three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano), a collection of sacred songs
  • Second book of for three, four, five, and six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – First book of for one, two, and three voices with accompaniment (Rome)
• Orlande de Lassus – Posthumous Masses (Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich)
• Claude Le Jeune – Third book of psalms for three voices (Paris: Pierre Ballard), published posthumously
• Giovanni de Macque – Third book of madrigals for four voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Gargano & Lucrezio Nucci)
• Simone Molinaro – for six voices, books 1 & 2 (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Vespro della Beata Vergine (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino – Motets for two, three, and four voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
• Germano Pallavicino – Il secondo libro delle fantasie, over ricercare a quattro voci... (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
• Enrico Antonio Radesca (Radesca di Foggia) – Fourth book of canzonettas, madrigals and arie alla romana for two and three voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)

Classical music

• Georg Patermann – Harmonia for ten voices, to commemorate the wedding of Peter Fueß and Wendula Linsing

Opera

• Giordano Giacobbi – L'Andromeda

Births

• July – Leonora Duarte, Flemish musician and composer (died 1678)
• December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (died 1680)
• date unknown
  • Wojciech Bobowski, Polish musician and Ottoman dragoman (died 1675)
  • Henry Du Mont, French composer (died 1684)
  • Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (died 1696)

Deaths

• May 2 – Paolo Virchi, organist and composer (born 1551)
• May 24 – Joachim a Burck, composer and Lutheran hymnodist (born 1546)