Mus. Pl. -i. [It. terzetto: see TERCET.] A (small) trio, esp. vocal.
1724. Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Terzetto, little Airs in Three Parts.
1816. T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, xiii. Mr. Chromatic,… with the assistance of his two … daughters, regaled the ears of the company with the following terzetto.
1833. C. MacFarlane, Banditti & Robbers (1837), 187 (Stanf.). At the conclusion of the duetto they begged for the grace of a terzetto.
