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{{Short description|Italian musical form}}
{{Distinguish|canzone}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2012}}

The '''canzona''', also known as the '''canzon'''  or '''canzone''',{{efn|During [[Giovanni Gabrieli]]'s lifetime, the form was frequently spelled canzona, though both earlier and later the singular was spelled either canzon or canzone with the plural '''canzoni'''. The use of '''canzone''' as the plural is sometimes found in Italian, but is not common. English (and often German) uses the term '''canzonas''' as the plural.{{r|GroveDict2001_Canzona}}}} is an Italian musical form derived from the Franco-Flemish and Parisian ''[[Chanson|chansons]]''.{{r|GroveDict2001_Canzona}}

==Background==
The canzona is an instrumental musical form that differs from the similar forms of [[Ricercar|ricercare]] and [[Fantasia (music)|fantasia]] in its livelier, markedly rhythmic material and separation into distinct sections.{{sfn|Grout|1960|p=299}} At first based on the Franco-Flemish [[Polyphony|polyphonic]] songs (chansons) that gave it its name, the instrumental canzona was soon independently composed, not least by Gabrieli in his brass canzonas and by [[Girolamo Frescobaldi]] in his keyboard canzonas. As a form, the canzona would influence the [[fugue]],{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}} and the ensemble canzonas were the direct ancestors of the 17th-century ''[[sonata da chiesa]]''.{{sfn|Grout|1960|p=252}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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<ref name=GroveDict2001_Canzona>{{cite book |last=Caldwell |first=John |author-link=John Caldwell (musicologist) |date=2001 |chapter=Canzona |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley |editor1-link=Stanley Sadie |editor2-last=Tyrrell |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Tyrrell (professor of music) |title=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]] |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780195170672}}</ref>
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Grout |first=Donald Jay |author-link=Donald Jay Grout |date=1960 |title=A History of Western Music |location=New York City |publisher=W. W. Norton & Co.}}

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