1584 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Publications

• Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Pratum musicum, a collection of lute music for solo and ensemble, published in Antwerp
• Giuseppe Caimo – Second book of canzonette
• Girolamo Dalla Casa - Il vero modo di diminuir con tutte le sorti di stromenti di fiato, & corda, & di voce humana
• Vincenzo Galilei - Fronimo Dialogo, revised edition
• Luca Marenzio – First book of villanelle

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)