1620 in music

Popular music

• The Ballad of Chevy Chase (second version)

Classical music

• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho - Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa
• Michelangolo Galilei – Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto

Opera

• Claudio Monteverdi – Andromeda

Births

• September 6 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
• probable – Adam Drese, bass viol player and composer (d. 1701)

Deaths

• March 1 – Thomas Campion, composer and poet (born 1567)
• March 25 – Johannes Nucius, composer and music theorist (born c. 1556)
• August 2 – Carolus Luython, composer (born 1557)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Adams, music publisher (born c. 1566)
  • Joachim van den Hove, composer (born c.1567)
• probable – Girolamo Belli, composer and music teacher (born 1552)