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a trio is a group of three instrumentalists,
most often a piano, a violin, and a cello,
in our Western musical tradition
but it is also a musical form, like a waltz
is, or a prelude, or a nocturne, a trio is
a sonata, essentially, but written for
three instruments, not one, nor two,
consisting of more than one segment,
or movement
though I’ve presented trios as trios to date,
sonatas for three instruments, here’s a piece
for three instruments but in one movement,
though segmented, admittedly, as variations,
see above, a similar collection of rhythms
and styles, brought together by a common
essential element, a game audiences played
back then, and still do even now, trying to
distinguish the individual variations, before
falling prey to their enchantment
R ! chard
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the best way to sharpen your aesthetic pencil
is always to put one thing up against another,
then decide which you like best, the outcome
is never right or wrong, it is quite simply a
function of your aesthetic sensibility, the
more you exercise that taste muscle, holding
one element up against another, to compare,
the more you develop an informed, if not ever
conclusive, opinion, which develops eventually
into, if not authority, at least wisdom
what do you want to be when you grow up,
I asked myself in my very early teens, I
want to be wise like my grandmother, I
answered, have I reached my goal, you
tell me, though it is still, and ever will be,
my quest
Beethoven’s “Archduke“, also a trio, his
which do you like best, there is no correct
answer, but your choice will tell you a lot
about yourself
enjoy
R ! chard
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