Trio

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A trio is a group of three identical or similar objects, or a grouping of three persons for a common purpose. (See tuple for alternative names.)

In music

• Trio (music), three people performing music in some way
• Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
• String trio (violin, viola, cello)
• Trio (jazz) (piano, double bass, drums)
• Clarinet-violin-piano trio
• Power trio (electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit)
• Harmonica trio (chromatic harmonica, bass harmonica, chord harmonica)
• The middle section of a piece in ternary form
• The third section of a march (music)
• Trio (band), a German pop band who wrote "Da da da"
• The Trio, one incarnation of Trey Anastasio (band)
• Trio (album), a 1987 recording by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. The group is also sometimes referred to as Trio.
• Trio 2 (album), a 1998 recording by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
• The Trio, a live 1961 album featuring a jazz trio led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson

In other entertainment:

• Trio (TV network), a former American cable and satellite television channel owned by NBC Universal
• Trio (novel), a 1943 novel by Dorothy Baker
• Trio (1950 film), a movie directed by Ken Annakin
• Trio (TV series), a South Korean television drama produced by the MBC in 2002
• Trio (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series Stargate Atlantis

Other uses:

• Trio, a speaker phone, personal handset and voice recorder made by Ipevo
• Trio AB, a Swedish telecommunications company
• Trio, South Carolina
• The European trade name of Japanese concern Kenwood Electronics
• An Australian company producing durable DVD Players
• A United Kingdom chocolate bar of the 1980s
• The S3 Trio 3D Graphics Accelerator.
• The Trio or Tiriyó people of South America, or the Tiriyó language
• TRIO, a US government outreach program for disadvantaged students
• An abstract family of languages with particular closure properties

[edit] See also

• 3 (number)
• Triplet (disambiguation)
• Triad (disambiguation)
• Triumvirate
• List of fictional trios