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trio sonata

noun

  1. a type of baroque composition in several movements scored for two upper parts and a bass part
  2. a similar type of composition played on a keyboard instrument, esp an organ
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In two major-key, three-movement pieces that were focused on him — a trio sonata in C and a concerto in D — he wove a subtle but clear, golden filament of sound in the outer movements; and, in the slow middle sections, was tenderly melancholy.

Opening with a meditative section of Bach’s Trio Sonata in G — Mr. Brown could set more dances to Bach, and I wouldn’t complain — the tone is measured and formal, but never stiff.

Both the music — the slow section of Bach’s Trio Sonata in G — and the movement have a formal, almost classical quality.

Violinist Glenn Donnellan kept pace with her on second violin in the Trio Sonata, Op.

The top layer was made up of a short two-part invention and a trio sonata; the Bach bread underneath was the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor for harpsichord. 

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