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Minuet and trio
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Minuet.
Minuet and trio
Around the time of Jean-Baptiste Lully, it became a common practice to score this middle section for a trio (such as two oboes and a bassoon, as is common in Lully). As a result, this middle section came to be called the minuet's trio, even when no trace of such an orchestration remains. The overall structure is called rounded binary or minuet form: