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Pieces featuring a canon in 2 or more parts scores

A categories for canons. Most music publications featuring canons have the resolutions specifically written out, though occasionally one finds true puzzle canons where the solution must be reasoned out. Katelijne Schiltz's book Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance is a helpful reference, featuring Bonnie Blackburn's list of canon rules, translations, and meanings.

Hawthorne Early Music editions: canon scores
ComposerTitleSubtitle# PartsLanguageModeFiles
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) Miserere nostri 7 latin Dorian Score + Parts
William Byrd (c.1540-1623) O lux beata Trinitas 6 latin Mixolydian Score + Parts
Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-1565) Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato 5 italian Mixolydian Score + Parts
Giovanni Matteo Asola (c.1532-1609) E quella a fiori a pomi a la verdura Seconda parte 2 italian Mixolydian Score + Parts
Giovanni Matteo Asola (c.1532-1609) Or che la terra di fioretti e fronde 2 italian Dorian Score + Parts
Giovanni Matteo Asola (c.1532-1609) Cantan fra rami gli augelletti vaghi Prima parte 2 italian Ionian Score + Parts
Anonymous O venus pandt 4 instrumental Mixolydian Score + Parts
Alfonso Ferrabosco, Sr. (1543-1588) O lux beata Trinitas 6 latin Mixolydian Score + Parts
Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-1566) Hodie Christus natus est 6 latin Dorian Score + Parts
Antoine Busnoys (c.1430-1492) A que ville et abominable Canon: Trinitas in unitate 3 instrumental Hypodorian Score + Parts
Elway Bevin (1554-1638) Four parts in one to the plainsong 5 instrumental Phrygian Score + Parts
Mattheus Le Maistre (c.1505-1577) Nu bitten wir den heiligen Geist 6 german Ionian Score + Parts
Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564) Regina cœli letare Prima parte 6 latin Ionian Score + Parts
Luca Marenzio (c.1553-1599) La bella man vi stringo 5 italian Hypodorian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Veni Sancte Spiritus Prima pars 6 latin Dorian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Tua per precata dulcisona Secunda pars 7 latin Ionian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Aspice Domine quia facta est Prima pars 6 latin Dorian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Quanti mercenarii Secunda pars 6 latin Mixolydian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Inviolata, integra et casta Prima pars 7 latin Ionian Score + Parts
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) Pater peccavi Prima pars 6 latin Mixolydian Score + Parts
Francesco Soriano (c.1548-1621) Canon all'unisono a mezza pausa sopra Ave Maris Stella 3 latin Dorian Score + Parts
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c.1535-1592) Missa Susanne un giour Agnus Dei II 7 latin Dorian Score + Parts
Jean Japart (fl.ca.1474-1481) Jay pris amours 4 instrumental Dorian Score + Parts
Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521) L'Homme Armé 4 instrumental Hypodorian Score + Parts