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 3/4 time. The subjects of the three imitative sections are all thematically related. The second section subject is the same as the first half of the first subject with some rhythmic changes adapting the subject to 3/4 time. The subject of the last imitative section inverts the contour of the first two subjects. Very little imitative material separates the three imitative sections.

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