1677 in music

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The year 1677 in music involved some significant events.

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September 10 – Henry Purcell is appointed a musician to the court of Charles II of England.
Charles Davenant's "semi-opera" Circe, with music by composer John Banister, is performed in London by the Duke's Company in May.
Nikolay Diletsky publishes Grammatika musikiyskago peniya (Грамматика музикийского пения, "A grammar of musical song").
Fabian Stedman publishes Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing in England.

Giovanni Battista Bassani – Balletti, Correnti, Gighe e Sarabande a due violini e basso continuo, Op.1
Johann Melchior Gletle – Expeditionis musicae classis IV, Op.5
Nicolas Lebègue – Pièces de Clavecin, Premier Livre
Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti, Op.7.
Stefano Pasino – Guida e consequenti dell'opera composta in canoni ... cioè Salmi a 4. voci C A T B..., Op. 7 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)

David Funck – Stricturæ viola-di gambicæ
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Te Deum, first performed on September 9, for the baptism of Lully's son^[1]
Georg Muffat – Violin Sonata in D major
Alessandro Poglietti – Rossignolo
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz – Luz y Norte

February 2 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (died 1745)
February 4 – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer, second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1731)
February 26 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (died 1745)
June 18 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, cellist and composer, brother of Giovanni Bononcini (died 1726)
September 27 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer (died 1754)
date unknown – Christian Petzold, organist and composer (died c.1733)

^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 277. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.