Trio

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 297

Trio, in Music, a composition for three voices or for three instruments. The term is also applied to a movement in \frac{3}{4} time in a different key, which follows a minnet or other movement, and leads back to the previous movement in the original key.

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