| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Santa Monica, 1936 |
| Instrumentation: | 3 Percussionists |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6763 © 1977 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (Holograph in pencil, signed - 5 p.), part for player 3 (copyist's manuscript in ink - 2 p.), part for player 3 (holograph in ink - 2 p.), part for player 2 (holograph in ink - 2 p.) all in New York Public Library. |
| The piece is in three movements: Allegro - March - Waltz. Cage incorporated the Waltz in his composition Amores of 1943. In the score in the New York Public Library Cage mentions: "Instruments include: 1st player: 3 woodblocks, 3 small tom-toms (wire brushes), bamboo sticks; 2nd player: tom-tom (wire brushes), bass drum; 3rd player: 3 woodblocks, tom-tom, bamboo sticks." The Trio is a suite of three movements composed of fixed rhythmic patterns. |