Claudio Merulo, who worked for many years at the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, was one of the first musicians to compose canzoni da sonare; his were widely imitated and arranged.
These three canzonas are taken from:-
CANZONI PER SONARE CON OGNI
SORTE DI STROMENTI
À Quatro, Cinque & Otto
Con il suo Basso generale per l’Organo
Libro Primo
A presso Alessandro Raverij MDCVIII
which is a large, retrospective anthology of music by many composers more or less associated with Venice.
