1627 in music

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The year 1627 in music involved some significant events.

Events[]

January 13 – Tarquinio Merula is officially appointed maestro di cappella in Cremona, after having been elected provisionally the previous year.^[1]
June 21 – Christopher Gibbons election as a scholar of the Charterhouse is approved by the Governors, following his nomination in January through the Signet Office.^[2]

Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Corona di vaghi fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabeto notation, for the guitar, published in Venice
Giacinto Bondioli – Psalms for five voices, Op. 8 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
Carlo Farina
- Ander Theil newer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten, französischen Arien
- Il terzo libro delle pavane, gagliarde, brand: mascherata, arie franzese, volte, corrente, sinfonie
Melchior Franck
- Deliciae convivales for four, five, and six instruments with basso continuo (Coburg: Johann Forckel for Friederich Gruner), a collection of intradas
- Neues fröhliches musikalisches Concert for seven voices and organ bass (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
- Christliche Musicalische Glückwündschung auß den recht schönen tröstlichen Worten Esai. 43. Fürchte dich nicht denn ich habe dich erlöset for six voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a wedding motet
Sigismondo d'India – First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Carlo Milanuzzi – Concerto sacro di salmi intieri for two and three voices, book 1, Op. 14 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Francesco Pasquali – Third book of madrigals, Op. 5 (Rome: Paolo Masotti)

March 23 – Lodovico Zacconi, composer (born 1555)
May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and monk (born c.1560)
August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557)
November 30 – Pedro Ruimonte, musician and composer (born 1565)
December – Thomas Lupo the elder, viol player and composer (born 1571)
date unknown
- Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, poet and composer (born 1556)
- Leone Leoni, composer (born c.1560)

^ Stephen Bonta, "Merula, Tarquinio", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Christopher D. S. Field, "Gibbons, Christopher", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).