Piccola Musica is written for string trio and is in five short movements, independent of each other, apart from the tie-up between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal, though less consistently sothan in Maconchy's Quartets, and the mood is more relaxed.
The five piccoli movimenti are: I Allegro moderato,II Andante, III Moderato, IV Poco lento, V Allegro moderato- meno mosso-allegro moderato: in its end is itsbeginning.
