Canzona

Canzona (also canzone) is a poetic form, and a type of musical composition.

Music

In music, a canzona was a 16th-century multipart vocal setting of a literary canzone and a 16th- and 17th-century instrumental composition. At first based on Franco-Flemish polyphonic songs (chansons), later independently composed, the instrumental canzona, such as the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli influenced the fugue and was the direct ancestor of the sonata. See canzone.

Related Topics:
16th - 17th-century - Polyphonic - Giovanni Gabrieli - Fugue - Sonata - Canzone

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