Trio (music)

In music, a trio (from the Italian) is any of the following:

  • a composition for three performers or three musical parts
  • in larger works, the middle section of a ternary form (so named because of the 17th-century practice of scoring the contrasting second or middle dance appearing between two statements of a principal dance for three instruments)
  • an ensemble of three instruments or voices performing trio compositions.
This article is about the musical term. For other uses of trio, see Trio (disambiguation).
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