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  2. Trio (music) - Wikipedia

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    A trio is a composition for three performers or musical parts. Works include Baroque trio sonatas , choral works for three parts, and works for three instruments such as string trios . In the trio sonata, a popular genre of the 17th and early 18th century, two melodic instruments are accompanied by a basso continuo , making three parts in all.

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

  4. Minuet - Wikipedia

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    The term also describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer musical form called the minuet and trio, and was much used as a movement in the early classical symphony. While often stylized in instrumental forms, composers of the period would have been familiar with the popular ...

  5. Eldar - Wikipedia

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    Eldar is a masculine given name and surname of various origins. In Scandinavian countries, the name means "fire warrior," derived from the North Germanic languages . The name is also popular in the former countries of the Soviet Union , especially among the Turkic population, where it is understood to mean "country/society possessor" or "ruler."

  6. Trio - Wikipedia

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    The Trio (Oscar Peterson album) The Trio, by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Pedersen; The Trio (Ted Curson album) Trios (Carla Bley album), 2013 "Trio", a song by King Crimson on the album Starless and Bible Black; Trios, Op. 1 (Stamitz), a set of six orchestral pieces; Trio (Steve Berry album) by the Steve Berry Trio

  7. Sextet - Wikipedia

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    A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members.The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit.

  8. String trio - Wikipedia

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    A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. From at least the 19th century on, the term "string trio" with otherwise unspecified instrumentation normally refers to the combination violin, viola and cello. The classical string trio emerged during the mid-18th century and later expanded into four ...

  9. Scherzo - Wikipedia

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    4 time; or the trio section of the scherzo from his Second Symphony which is in 2 8 time. Another example is Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18. This example is also unusual in being written in orthodox sonata form rather than the usual ternary form for such a movement, and thus it lacks a trio section. This sonata is also unusual in that the ...