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 Clef
However, the F clef has historically been used on other lines of the musical staff, most notably on the middle line, when it is known as the baritone clef.
Most lower-pitched instruments, such as the lower brass, strings and woodwinds read bass clef; also choral music for bass and baritone parts are usually also written in the bass clef.
The C clef on the first line means soprano clef which works for violin and the clarinet in A. The alto clef
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clef.html   (762 words)

  
 CONTRAPUNTAL FORMS - Online Information article about CONTRAPUNTAL FORMS
LEDGER (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger)
versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)
line of demarcation between the free development of counterpoint on a canto fermo and the general art of combining melodies which gives harmony its deepest expression and musical texture its liveliest action.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONTRAPUNTAL_FORMS.html   (5559 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Clef Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A clef is a symbol used in musical notation that assigns notes to lines and spaces on the musical staff.
A clef can be thought of as assigning a certain note to a specific line on the staff; adjacent...
The C clef is sometimes also used to indicate the mezzo-soprano or flautalto clef, which assigns C to the second line from the bottom of the staff.
www.ipedia.com /clef.html   (777 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Definition of NOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE
The clef derives from neum notation: attached to the Staff it fixes the pitch of one of its lines as middle C or some other note, from which all the others may be deduced.
Note-heads appear below, on, and above each staff line; and those between the staff-lines occur close to lower or upper line and centred between the lines.
Klavarscribo uses a staff in which lines and spaces run vertically, being grouped according to the fl and white keys of the keyboard.
www.classicalarchives.com /dict/notation_and_nomenclature.html   (741 words)

  
 Music Notation Theory - I Write The Music.com
For example, a typical rhythmic exercise might have two separate rhythmic lines to be performed by each hand tapping, or by singing one of the lines and clapping or tapping the other.
Melodic exercises are often accompanied by a contrasting rhythm line.
The author has not simply produced a compendium; he has digested an enormous quantity of abstruse material and has drawn together historical lines of development....
www.iwritethemusic.com /notationtheory.html   (1811 words)

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