The year 1617 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 6 – The Vision of Delight, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably for the first time on this date, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
February 22 – Lovers Made Men, another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera, but this cannot be certain as the music has not survived.)
Encomium verbo incarnato (Ingolstadt, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo.[4]
Officium angeli custodis (Dillingen, Gregor Haenlin) for four voices and basso continuo, dedicated to Maximilian Fugger.[5]
Giovanni Andreini, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, Alessandro Ghivizzani – Musiche de alcuni eccellentissimi Musici composte per la Maddalena (Venice, Bartolomeo Magni) "Sacra Rappresentazione" (i.e. an oratorio).[6]
Fourth book of Sacri concentus (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Diporti musicali, madrigals for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti)
Selva armonica (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), a collection of motets, madrigals, canzonettas, dialogues, and arias
Bartolomeo Barbarino – Madrigals for three voices and theorbo or harpsichord (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes some madrigals for solo voice
Girolamo Belli – Ninth book of madrigals for five voices, Op. 22 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
Jean Baptiste Besard – Novus Partus, sive Concertationes Musicae (Augsburg, D. Franck), collection of lute music.[7]
Bernardino Borlasca – First book of Ardori spirituali for two, three, and four voices, Op. 7 (Munich: Anna Berg)
William Brade – Newe Außerlesene liebliche Branden, Intraden, Mascharaden, Balletten, All'manden, Couranten, Volten, Auffzuege und fremde Taentze for five instruments (Hamburg: Michael Hering), a collection of dance music
Antonio Brunelli – Sacra cantica for one, two, three, and four voices, Op. 13 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
Thomas Campion – The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, Thomas Snodham), "so as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion."[8]
Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (born c. 1577)
References
^Jerome Roche and Roark Miller, "Grandi, Alessandro (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Susi Jeans and O.W. Neighbour, "Bull [Boul, Bul, Bol], John [Jan] [Bouville, Bonville, Jean]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Monique Rollin, "Gautier [Gaultier], Jacques [Gwaltier, James]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Full Online Text at University of Michigan Early English Books Online,accessed 11-7-2017 [1]
^Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 147. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
^Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 213. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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