| Year |
Event |
| 1601 |
Caccini's new vocal style:"Nuove musiche" |
| 1601 |
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa:"Madrigals" to lyrics by Torquato Tasso |
| 1601 |
Thomas Morley:"Triumphs of Oriana" |
| 1602 |
Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer born |
| 1602 |
Hans Leo Hassler:"Lustgarten" collection of German lieder |
| 1603 |
Thomas Morley, English composer and theorist dies |
| 1603 |
Jean Baptiste Besard:"Thesaurus harmonicus" collection of lute music |
| 1603 |
Monteverdi:"Fourth Book of Madrigals" |  |
| 1603 |
Thomas Robinson:"School of Musicke" |
| 1604 |
Orfeo Vecchi, Italian composer, dies |
| 1604 |
Heinrich Albert, German composer born |
| 1604 |
Company of Musicians incorporated in London |
| 1604 |
Orlando di Lasso:"Magnum opus musicum" 516 motet (posth.) |
| 1604 |
Negri:"Inventioni di Balli" on dance technique |
| 1605 |
Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer, born |
| 1605 |
Tomas Luis de Victoria:"Officium Defuntorum" |
| 1605 |
John Dowland:"Lachrymae, or Seaven Teares in Seaven Passionate Pavans" |
| 1605 |
Monterverdi:"Fifth book of Madrigals" |
| 1606 |
Guillaume Costeley, French - Scottish composer, dies |
| 1606 |
First open air operas in Rome |
| 1607 |
William Byrd:"Gradualia" |  |
| 1607 |
Claudio Monteverdi:"Orfeo," opera |
| 1608 |
Girolamo Frescobaldi made organist at St. Peter's Rome |
| 1608 |
Monteverdi:"Lamento d Arianna" |
| 1609 |
Orlando Gibbons:"Fantazies of Three Parts," first example of engraved music in England |
| 1609 |
Thomas Ravenscroft:"Pammelia," collection of rounds and catches |
| 1610 |
Michael Preatorius "Musae sioniae" collection of 1244 church hymns |
| 1610 |
Lodovico Grossi di Viadan:"Symphonies" |
| 1611 |
William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons:"Parthenia," collection of music of virginals |
| 1611 |
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer, dies |
| 1611 |
Johannes Eccard, German composer, dies |
| 1611 |
Thomas Ravenscroft:"Melismata," 21 madrigals and other pieces |
| 1612 |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer, dies |
| 1612 |
Orlando Gibbons:"First Set of Madrigals and Motets" |
| 1612 |
Andreas Hammerschmidt, German Composer, born |
| 1613 |
Bartolomaus Gese, German composer, dies |
| 1613 |
Pietro Cerone:"El Malopeo y Maestro," musical history and theory |
| 1613 |
Monteverdi made maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Venice. |  |
| 1614 |
Girolamo Frecobaldi:"Toccate di Cembalo" |
| 1614 |
Marco da Galiano: "Masses and Motets" |
| 1614 |
Sir William Leighton:"Teares and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule," 54 psalms |
| 1615 |
Andriano Banchieri founds Accademia dei Filomusi in Bologna |
| 1616 |
Collegium Musicum founded at Prague |
| 1616 |
Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer, born |
| 1617 |
Biagio Marini:"Musical Events," sonata for solo violin |
| 1617 |
J.H. Schein:"Banchetto musicale," first dance suite |
| 1617 |
Heinrich Schutz made Kapellmeister of electoral chapel, Dresden |
| 1618 |
Guilio Caccini, Italian composer and singer dies |
| 1619 |
"Fitzwilliam Virginal Book" Compiled by Francis Tregian; a treasury of early English keyboard music |
| 1619 |
Marco da Galiano:"Medoro," Italian opera |
| 1619 |
Heinrich Schutz:"Psalms" |
| 1619 |
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: "Cantiones sacrae" |
| 1620 |
Monteverdi:" Seventh book of Madrigals" |
| 1620 |
Michael Praetorius:"Syntagma musicum," musical encyclopedia |  |
| 1621 |
Michael Praetorius, German composer and musicologist dies |
| 1621 |
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch musician, dies |
| 1623 |
William Byrd, English composer, dies |
| 1623 |
Marc' Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, born |
| 1624 |
Marco da Galiano:La Regina Sant' Orsola," opera-oratorio |
| 1624 |
Monteverdi:"Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" |
| 1625 |
Orlando Gibbons, English musician, dies |
| 1625 |
Famous Peal of Bells installed in the Gate of Salvation, Kremlin, Moscow |
| 1625 |
Heinrich Schutz:"Cantiones sacrae" |
Music History Timeline - 1601 to 1625
