Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!
Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Topic: Trio section - meaning  (Read 1618 times)

Offline stormx

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 396
Trio section - meaning
on: July 10, 2005, 05:27:58 PM
Hi !!  :) :)

What does it mean when some section of a piece is labeled "TRIO"?

My guess is that you have in that part 3 interacting voices, in a counterpoint sense. But i am not sure  :-\ :-\
Logged

Offline qwerty quaver

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 59
Re: Trio section - meaning
Reply #1 on: July 10, 2005, 05:55:57 PM
The word "trio" refer (I think in your case) to the middle, contrasting section of a piece in ternary form.
This usage gives rise to the "minuet and trio" (or the "scherzo and trio", introduced by Beethoven) which often appears as the third movement in a symphony, sonata or similar work (something of 4 mouvements)
It is indeed written in a three part harmony.
Logged
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
- Johann Sebastian Bach

Offline qwerty quaver

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 59
.
Reply #2 on: July 10, 2005, 05:57:36 PM
spam
Logged
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
- Johann Sebastian Bach

Offline galonia

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 472
Re: Trio section - meaning
Reply #3 on: July 12, 2005, 11:31:28 PM
The middle section of a movement in Minuet-and-Trio form did used to be written in three-part harmony, but eventually it's just a section with a lighter texture.

Make sure, when you go back to the Minuet after the Trio, not to do the repeats in the Minuet again.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!

Piano Street Magazine:
New Piano Piece by Chopin Discovered – Free Piano Score
A previously unknown manuscript by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. The handwritten score is titled “Valse” and consists of 24 bars of music in the key of A minor and is considered a major discovery in the wold of classical piano music. Read more
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert