The year1677 in music involved some significant events.

• September 10 –Henry Purcell is appointed a musician to the court ofCharles II of England.
• Charles Davenant's "semi-opera"Circe, with music by composerJohn Banister, is performed in London by theDuke's Company in May.
• Nikolay Diletsky publishesGrammatika musikiyskago peniya (Грамматика музикийского пения, "A grammar of musical song").
• Fabian Stedman publishesTintinnalogia, 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

• Carlo Grossi –La Giocasta, regina d'Armenia
• Jean-Baptiste Lully –Isis

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

• March –Robert Cambert, opera composer (born c.1628)
• August –Matthew Locke, composer (born 1621)
• November 11 –Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (born 1619)
• date unknown –Robert Cambert, composer of opera (born 1628)

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