1588 in music
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Publications
- William Byrd – Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie
- Giaches de Wert – Ninth book of madrigals a5
- Nicholas Yonge – Musica transalpina
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)