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The textless ‘chace’ for two voices that Jehan Lebeuf d'Abbeville en Pontieu added in 1362 to a late 11th-century plainchant manuscript appears to be an extremely simple circular canon, and the pilgrims' songs labelled ‘caca’ in the late 14th-century ‘Llibre vermell’ are round canons for two or three voices that untrained singers might easily have learnt without the benefit of notation...

The other three chaces in the Ivrea manuscript are extended, continuous canons. Although they are not identified as chaces, realization in canon at the unison for three voices at a time interval of five longs is inherent in their melodic and rhythmic structure. Hareu, hareu, je la voy, listed in the index of the lost Tremoille manuscript, is identified as a ‘cantus trium vocum cum fuga 9 temporum’ in Coussemaker's inventory of the lost Strasbourg manuscript; it too seems to be a mimetic chace on a hunting theme...

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