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In music, a canzona (also canzone
Canzone

Literally "song" in Italian language, a canzone is an Italy or Proven?al song or ballad. It is also used to






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In music, a canzona (also canzone
Canzone

Literally "song" in Italian language, a canzone is an Italy or Proven?al song or ballad. It is also used to describe a type of lyric which resembles a madrigal ....
) was a 16th-century multipart vocal setting of a literary canzone and a 16th
1500s

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- and 17th-century
1600s

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 instrumental composition. At first based on Franco-Flemish polyphonic songs (chansons), later independently composed, the instrumental canzonas, such as the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organ . He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance music to Baroque music idioms....
, influenced the fugue
Fugue

In music, a fugue is a type of counterpoint composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of melody, normally referred to as "voices"....
 and were the direct ancestors of the sonata. See canzone
Canzone

Literally "song" in Italian language, a canzone is an Italy or Proven?al song or ballad. It is also used to describe a type of lyric which resembles a madrigal ....
.