1617 in music

The year 1617 in music involved some significant events.

Events

* "The Vision of Delight", a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably on January 6, with a second performance of January 19. The work features music by Nicholas Lanier.
* "Lovers Made Men", another masque by Jonson, Jones, and Lanier, is performed on Saturday, February 22. (Lanier's music for the masque may have featured recitatives throughout; if so, it would have been a significant precursor of English opera. But Lanier's music for the work has not survived.)

Publications

Classical music

*Biagio Marini - "Affetti musicali" (Musical Affections), Op. 1 [cite book |last=Palisca |first= Claude V. |title=Baroque Music |origyear=1968 |edition=3rd |series=Prentice Hall History of Music |year=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs |isbn=0-13-058496-7 |pages= 147]
*Johann Hermann Schein - "Banchetto musicale" [ibid., 213]

Opera

Births

Deaths

*April 5 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
*August 8 - Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (b. 1542)
*"date unknown"
**Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpet player (b. c. 1542)
**Robert Jones, lutenist and composer (b. c. 1577)
*"probable" - Giovanni Bassano, cornet player and composer (b. c. 1558)

References