The 12th annual Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present seven concerts, beginning with Italian Four-Part Canzonas at noon Monday, Jan. 30, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit.

The concert will provide an in-depth exploration of the rarely-heard Italian Four-Part Canzona, which blossomed in print from 1582 through the early decades of the 1600s and was inspired by French and Flemish chansons from the early 1500s.

It will include music ranging from 1529, marking the beginning of commercial music printing in Europe, through 1636, at which point more “modern” stylistic forms such as the familiar sonata began to supplant the canzona, which bridged Renaissance and Baroque musical styles.

Canzonas by Andrea and Giovanni Cima, Biumi, Canale, Buonamente, Maschera, Ardemanio, Frescobaldi and Corradini will be included in the program alongside examples of the instrumental renditions of French and Flemish songs that inspired them, all performed on recorder, transverse flute, viola and Renaissance bassoon (dulcian).

Musicians include Vicki Boeckman (Renaissance recorders), Jeffrey Cohan (Renaissance transverse flute), Lindsey Strand-Polyak (viola) and Anna Marsh (dulcian, or Renaissance bassoon).

Admission is by suggested donation: $20 or $25 (a free-will offering). Guests 18 & under are free.

For more information, including the full festival schedule of upcoming noontime concerts at the Church of the Holy Spirit, visit salishseafestival.org/vashon.

The Episcopal Church is located at 15420 Vashon Hwy. SW.