 Cadéac wrote music in most of the vocal forms of the time and place, including secular chansons, motets, mass settings, Magnificats, and one isolated setting of the Credo (part of the mass).A total of 11 chansons, 24 motets, eight settings of the mass, and four of the Magnificat survive.His chansons seem to be his earliest work, and he turned to sacred music later in his career.