A Level Composition, Minuet and Trio Options

[x-music-fairy-x]

Ok so having a bit of a confusion over the structure and stylistic features.

I thought the structure was for a Minuet and Trio was:

Minuet A B A
Trio A B A
Minuet A1 B1 A1

Is this correct? My teacher wants me to do:

Minuet A B A1
Trio A B C(mixture of A and B)
Minuet A1 B1 A1


Also stylistic features of a trio?

All I know is Ornamentation and Triplets. Also does the Trio have to contain features of the minuet or is it completely self contained?

Thanks for helping x

[wurlitzer]

This sounds very much more complicated than A level composition at my school. I am doing A2 music at the moment and the exam board is AQA... because I am the only person in my class AND chose to do a free composition, my teachers basically leave me to it and give me bits and pieces of advice regularly. After having written a piano trio (Piano, Violin, Cello) last year and gaining full marks I'm going for a classical Piano concerto this year, scores for Piano, strings, 2 Horns in C, Timpani in C and G, Flute, 2 oboes and 2 bassoons.

Aaaaaanyway! Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure I recall reading somewhere or other that one feature typical of minuets is that the opening of the second theme in the minuet is often similar to the opening of the first theme of the minuet, whether a right hand motif has been moved into the left hand, or whether the opening motif is now played in retrograde or as an inversion etc... Is this correct? This was actually one of the things I was quizzed about at my Cambridge interview in December and I stumbled around it a little (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)