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{{Year nav topic5|1588|music}} Events - 8 July – Thomas Morley received the degree Bachelor of Music from Oxford University
- Ferdinando de' Medici appoints Emilio de' Cavalieri artistic superintendent of the Medici court in Florence
Publications - William Byrd – Psalms, Sonnets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie, London
- Giaches de Wert – Ninth book of madrigals a5
- Nicholas Yonge (ed.) – Musica Transalpina, London: Thomas East
- The Walsingham Consort Books are copied, probably by Daniel Bacheler, who was only 15 or 16 years old at the time and contributed seven of his own pieces to this collection for broken consort
Classical music - Krzysztof Klabon – Pieśni Kalliopy Slowieńskiey: na terażnieysze pod Byczyną zwycięstwo, a cycle of six songs for voice and lute to texts by Stanisław Grochowski, celebrating the Battle of Byczyna, which ended the War of the Polish Succession
Births - June 9 (bapt.) – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and music theorist (d. 1666)
- June 30 - Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist and composer (d. 1649)
- September 10 (bapt.) – Nicholas Lanier, English lutenist and composer (d. 1666)
- September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician and music theorist (d. 1648)
Deaths - August 12 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), composer (b. 1543)
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