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trio sonata

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trio sonata

Principal chamber music genre of the Baroque era. Despite its name, it requires four performers: two melody instruments and continuo (usually a keyboard instrument and a bass instrument). It arose early in the 17th century as an instrumental version of the Italian vocal-duet ensemble. The two upper instruments, usually violins, generally wove their melodic, quasi-vocal lines high above the accompanying parts. Two standard forms emerged after 1750: the sonata da chiesa, or church sonata, standardized as a four-movement form (in slow-fast-slow-fast order); and the suite-like sonata da camera, or chamber sonata. By 1770 the genre had been abandoned in favour of the solo sonata.



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The music director started a chamber music program and personally coached some fifteen to twenty groups on repertoire ranging from baroque trio sonatas to the Mendelssohn Octet and Irving Fine Wind Quintets.
But he seems at ease with the idea of classicism, traditional partnering, and the orderliness of the Handel trio sonatas to which his choreography is performed.
Musical Offering was the result of Bach's improvisations on a royal theme given to him by Frederick the Great, and includes two fugues, ten canons, and a trio sonata.
 
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