Canzona

In the 16th century an instrumental chanson; later, a piece for ensemble in several sections or tempos (glossary of Grout's a History of Western Music) In music, a canzona (also canzone) 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 canzonas, such as the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli and the Keyboard canzonas of Girolamo Frescobaldi, influenced the fugue and were the direct ancestors of the sonata.