# 1584 in music
## Publications

* Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
* Giammateo Asola
** Secundum pars continens officium hebdomadae sanctae... (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
** Sacrae cantiones in totius anni solennitatibus... (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
* 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

* Paschal de l'Estocart – Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum

## Births

* May 27 – Michael Altenburg, German baroque composer (died 1640)
* date unknown
** Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish organist, composer, and theorist (died 1654)
** Andreas Berger, German composer (died 1656)
** Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

## Deaths

* September/October – Gioseppe Caimo, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
* date unknown
** Paolo Aretino, Venetian sacred music composer and choirmaster (born 1508)
** Pietro Vinci, composer (born 1535)
* probable
** Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian singer and noblewoman (born 1547)
** Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer (born c.1540)