Overview of the events of 1584 in music
Events
Publications Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum , a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
Giammateo Asola
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
Births
Deaths September/October – Gioseppe Caimo , Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
date unknown
probable