Tricinium

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Tricinium ( Latin ) is a mostly contrapuntal piece of music for three voices.

The term comes from the 16./17. Century and was used as a method of composition mainly in Protestant Germany. There are both instrumental , vocal and a cappella pieces. It can be combined into a polyphonic form of music.

Work examples

  • Tricinia (1542)
  • Trium vocum Carmina (1518, composer: Hieronymus Formschneyder, purely instrumental)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Vol. 22, FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 1993, page 360