See also: 1932 in music, other events of 1933, 1934 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• January 23 - Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 is premiered in Frankfurt
• National Association for American Composers and Conductors is founded by Henry Hadley .
• Billie Holiday's musical career begins
• Perry Como begins singing with the Freddie Carlone orchestra
• Gorni Kramer forms his first jazz band

Published popular music

• "After All, You're All I'm After" words: Edward Heyman music: Arthur Schwartz
• "Ah, But Is It Love?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney . Introduced by Lillian Miles and Roger Pryor in the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More" w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina
• "Are You Makin' Any Money?" w.m. Herman Hupfeld. Introduced by Lillian Miles in the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "Beautiful Girl" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" w.(English language) Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin (Yiddish) Jacob Jacobs m. Sholem Secunda
• "Black Moonlight" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
• "Blue Jazz" m. Gene Gifford
• "Blue Lou" w.m. Edgar Sampson & Irving Mills
• "Blue Prelude" w.m. Joe Bishop & Gordon Jenkins
• "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Build A Little Home" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "By A Waterfall" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain
• "Carioca" w. Gus Kahn & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans
• "Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "The Day You Came Along" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
• "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
• "Dinner at Eight" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
• "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
• "Don't Blame Me" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
• "Down The Old Ox Road" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
• "Dusty Shoes" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "Easter Parade" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Everything I Have Is Yours" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
• "Experiment" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Flying Down To Rio" w. Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn m. Vincent Youmans
• "Forty-Second Street" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Gimme A Pigfoot" w.m. Wesley Wilson
• "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Claudette Colbert in the film Torch Singer
• "Gotta Get Up And Go To Work" w.m. Herman Hupfeld. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "A Guy What Takes His Time" w.m. Ralph Rainger
• "Happy As The Day Is Long" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "Harlem On My Mind" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Heat Wave" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Hey, Young Fella" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
• "How Could We Be Wrong?" w.m. Cole Porter
• "How's Chances?" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "A Hundred Years From Today" w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young
• "Hustlin' And Bustlin' For Baby" w.m. Harry Woods
• "I Cover The Waterfront" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green
• "I Found A New Way To Go To Town" Dubois, Ellison, Harvey
• "I Just Couldn't Take It Baby" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
• "I Like Mountain Music" w. James Cavanaugh m. Frank Weldon
• "I Took My Harp To A Party" w. Desmond Carter m. Noel Gay
• "I Wanna Be Loved" w. Edward Heyman & Billy Rose m. John Green
• "I'm No Angel" w.m. Gladys Du Bois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
• "I'm Satisfied" w. Mitchell Parish m. Duke Ellington
• "Inka Dinka Doo" w.m. Jimmy Durante & Ben Ryan
• "Isn't It A Pity?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Isn't It Heavenly" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Joseph Meyer
• "It Isn't Fair" w.m. Richard Himber , Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato
• "It's Only A Paper Moon" w. E. Y. Harburg & Billy Rose m. Harold Arlen
• "It's The Talk Of The Town" w. Marty Symes & Al J. Nieburg m. Jerry Livingston
• "I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Keep Young And Beautiful" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "The Last Round-Up" w.m. Billy Hill
• "Lazybones" w.m. Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael
• "Learn To Croon" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
• "Let's Fall In Love" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "Let's Make Love Like the Crocodiles" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "Love Locked Out" w. Max Kester m. Ray Noble
• "Love Me" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
• "Maria Elena" w. (Eng) S. K. Russell m. Lorenzo Barclelata
• "The Moment I Saw You" w.m. Noel Gay
• "Moonlight And Pretzels" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "Moonstruck" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
• "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt
• "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii" w.m. Billy Cogswell, Tom Harrison & Johnny Noble
• "My Moonlight Madonna" w. Paul Francis Webster m. William Scotti
• "My Shawl" w. (Eng) Stanley Adams (Sp) Pedro Berrios m. Xavier Cugat
• "My Song Goes 'Round The World" w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy
• "Not For All The Rice In China" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Nymph Errant" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Oceans Of Time" w. Douglas Furber, Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Johnny Green
• "Old Father Thames" w.m. Raymond Wallace & Betsy O'Hogan
• "Old Man Harlem" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Hoagy Carmichael
• "On the Trail" w. Harold Adamson m. Ferdie Grofe
• "One Morning In May" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael
• "Oodles Of Noodles" m. Jimmy Dorsey
• "Pettin' In The Park" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "The Physician" w.m. Cole Porter
• "The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Birt
• "Remember My Forgotten Man" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Roll Up The Carpet" w. Raymond Klages m. Raymond Kluges, Al Goodhart & Al Hoffman
• "Shadow Waltz" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Shanghai Lil" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "She Loves Me Not" w. Edward Heyman m. Arthur Schwartz from the musical She Loves Me Not
• "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
• "Snowball" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
• "Solomon" w.m. Cole Porter from the musical Nymph Errant
• "Song Of Surrender" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Sophisticated Lady" w. Mitchell Parish & Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
• "Stormy Weather" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "Temptation" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Thanks" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
• "There's A Cabin In The Pines" w.m. Billy Hill
• "There's a Little Bit of You in Every Love Song" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Sammy Fain. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
• "There's Something About A Soldier" w.m. Noel Gay
• "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk" w.m. Gladys DuBois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
• "Tony's Wife" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
• "The Touch Of Your Hand" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
• "We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow" Harry Woods
• "We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "We're In The Money" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "When It's Lamp Lightin' Time In The Valley" w.m. Joe Lyons, Sam C. Hart & The Vagabonds
• "White Jazz" m. Gene Clifford
• "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" w.m. Frank Churchill
• "Yesterdays" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
• "You Gotta Be A Football Hero" w.m. Al Lewis, Al Sherman & Buddy Fields
• "You Ought To See Sally On Sunday" w.m. Harry Woods
• "Young And Healthy" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
• "You've Got Me Crying Again" w. Charles Newman m. Isham Jones

Top hit records

• "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
• "Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
• "Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's Band
• "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
• "Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
• "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
• "Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
• "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg - A Varmland Rhapsody
• Paul Creston - Seven Theses for piano
• Robert M. Helmschrott - Concerto for Organ and Percussion "Lamento"
• Gustav Holst - Lyric Movement
• Igor Markevitch - Psaume for soprano, female chorus and orchestra
• Xavier Montsalvatge - Tres Impromptus
• Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
• Dmitri Shostakovitch - Piano Concerto No. 1
• Igor Stravinsky - Perséphone

Opera

• Aaron Avshalomov - The Twilight Hour of Yan Kuei Fei
• Richard Strauss - Arabella

Musical theater

• As Thousands Cheer (Music and Lyrics: Irving Berlin Book: Moss Hart). Broadway revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 30 and ran for 400 performances
• Ball At The Savoy (Music: Paul Abraham Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II). London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on September 8 and ran for 96 performances.
• Gay Divorce (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Dwight Taylor ). London production opened at the Palace Theatre on November 2 and ran for 180 performances
• Nymph Errant (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Romney Brent ). London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 6 and ran for 154 performances
• Roberta (Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics and Book: Otto Harbach). Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 18 and ran for 295 performances

Musical films

• 42nd Street
• Bitter Sweet
• Cavalcade
• Dancing Lady
• Footlight Parade
• Going Hollywood released December 22 starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
• Gold Diggers Of 1933
• Moonlight And Pretzels released August 1 starring Leo Carrillo and Mary Brian
• Take A Chance

Births

• January 17 - Dalida
• February 17 - Bobby Lewis
• February 18 - Yoko Ono (Lennon)
• February 21 - Nina Simone
• March 9 - Lloyd Price
• March 13 - Mike Stoller, songwriter
• March 14 - Quincy Jones
• March 15 - Roy Clark
• April 8 - Fred Ebb, lyricist
• April 14 - Buddy Knox
• April 24 - Freddie Scott
• April 25 - Jerry Leiber
• April 30 - Willie Nelson
• May 3 - James Brown
• July 10 - Jerry Herman, US composer
• July 10 - Eileen Rodgers , US singer
• July 27 - Nick Reynolds , The Kingston Trio
• July 29 - Anne Rogers , English actress, singer and dancer
• August 8 - Joe Tex
• August 15 - Bill Pinckney , The Drifters
• August 15 - Bobby Helms
• August 17 - Mark Dinning
• August 21 - Dame Janet Baker
• September 1 - Conway Twitty
• September 14 - Harve Presnell, actor and singer
• September 15 - Pat Barrett , The Crewcuts
• September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, US singer
• September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers, US pop singer
• September 25 - Ian Tyson, Ian & Sylvia
• October 21 - Georgia Brown , English actress and singer
• October 27 - Floyd Cramer
• November 6 - Joseph Pope , The Tams
• November 16 - Garnett Mimms
• November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
• November 26 - Robert Goulet
• November 29 - John Mayall
• December 6 - Henryk Górecki, composer
• December 15 - Jesse Belvin

Deaths

• March 26 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician
• May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, US country singer "The Singing Brakeman"
• July 15 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician
• September 10 - Adrian Ross , English lyricist