Canzona (also canzone) is a poetic form, and a type of musical composition. Literally "song" in Italian, a canzone (plural canzoni) (cognate with English to Chant) is an Italian or Provençal

Poetry

In poetry, a canzona is a short lyric poem that developed in Provence, France, and became popular in Italy during the Middle Ages. Provence ( Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm is a region of southeastern France This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The subject of canzoni (Italian: "songs") was usually love, nature, or feminine beauty. In form, a canzone was composed of stanzas of equal length and often closed with an envoi or shorter stanza. The number of lines per stanza was generally 14, mirroring the sonnet. The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in Lyric poetry from Europe. Indeed, it has been postulated that the sonnet form came from the canzone. The most famous writers of canzoni were the 14th-century writers Guido Cavalcanti, Dante and Petrarch. Guido Cavalcanti (c 1255 – August 1300 was an Italian Poet who was a role model for and a very close friend of Dante. Francesco Petrarca ( July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar

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 canzonas, such as the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli, influenced the fugue and were the direct ancestors of the sonata. In Music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent Melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice ( Monophony Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 &ndash August 12 1612 was an Italian Composer and organist. In Music, a fugue (ˈfjuːg is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred Usage of sonata The Baroque applied the term sonata to a variety of works though most works in the Baroque Period were fugues and toccatas See canzone. Literally "song" in Italian, a canzone (plural canzoni) (cognate with English to Chant) is an Italian or Provençal

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