This canzona in C major is the longest of the extant Buxtehude canzonas. The canzona was becoming an archaic genre by the end of the seventeenth century when Buxtehude was active. It was an imitative genre often multi-sectional. Like in Frescobaldi's canzonas Buxtehude often separates different imitative sections with segments of free material. This canzona includes three imitative sections, the first and last in common time and the middle section in 6/8 time. The first and second imitative sections are separated by 17 measures of free material, while the second and third are separated by only a couple of measures of free material. The subjects of the three sections are only vaguely related.

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