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  Clef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are two common clefs that use the C clef symbol: The alto clef, which assigns C to the middle line of the staff, and the tenor clef, which assigns C to the second line from the top of the staff.
In this case the soprano and alto voices occupy the upper staff, with the treble clef, and the tenor and bass voices occupy the lower staff, with the bass clef.
One more use of the clefs is training in sight reading: the ability to read in any clef is useful for being able to transpose on sight (see sight transposition), although in that case the tessitura implied by the given clef must be ignored.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clef   (1635 words)

  
 Playing Tenor Clef on the Cello   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A-B-C-D-E is five notes apart, or a perfect fifth.) The middle line in bass clef is a D; the middle line in tenor clef is an A. (Count the notes from D to A, ie.
Note that the center of the tenor clef sign, which indicates middle C, is located on F in bass cleff.
E on the D string is in the third space on the bass clef staff.
www.cello.org /cnc/tim3.htm   (513 words)

  
 Tenor clef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This clef is sometimes used for the notation of the tenor part because it facilitates the printing of the part with minimal use of ledger lines.
This clef should not be confused with the vocal tenor clef which is a G clef.
The vocal tenor clef adds the number 8 below the normal G clef symbol indicating that the indicated staff should be performed one octave lower than indicated.
www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textt/Tenorclef.html   (114 words)

  
 Music Theory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A clef sign is used to determine the pitch of a particular note on a stave (staff).
The F (bass) clef is positioned on the forth line, and the C clef is placed on either the third line (alto clef) or on the forth line (tenor clef).
Tenor clef, formally used for tenor voice, is now used only for tenor trombone and the upper register of the bassoon, cello and double bass.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/1795/clefs.htm   (268 words)

  
 Clef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The G clef assigns the note G to a line on the staff, determined by the curl of the "G" symbol.
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.
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.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/clef   (776 words)

  
 Clef Symbols
It is also called an F clef because it came from an old fashion F symbol that looks like an F. The bass clef marks the fourth line of the musical staff as F. All other notes fall on the other lines and spaces accordingly.
A C clef symbol placed on the third line of the musical staff marks that line as middle C. C clef pointing to the third line of the musical staff is called an alto clef.
A C clef pointing to the fourth line of the musical staff marks that line as C. It is called a tenor clef.
www.treblis.com /Notation/Clefs.html   (472 words)

  
 Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Other Clefs
The soprano clef, setting middle C on the bottom line of the five line stave, and the mezzo-soprano clef, setting middle C on the second from the bottom line of the five line stave, were two other 'vocal' clefs.
For the tenor voice, the tenor clef was employed although today it is more commonly found in music for the larger tenor and bass viols, some brass instruments (e.g.
The tenor clef is used to avoid excessive leger lines when notating very high passages for instruments that normally have their parts written in bass clef.
www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory14.htm   (769 words)

  
 Other Clefs
A clef is a symbol placed at the beginning of a musical staff that indicates the pitch of the notes on that staff.
The alto clef is used by violas in an orchestra.
Music written in the vocal tenor clef should be read as if it is in treble clef, then sung one octave lower.
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 Gamingforce Interactive Forums - Tenor clef etc... -- What's the point?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tenor clef is typically used for cellos, bassoons and trombones in their higher range.
To my understanding, these clefs originated from the time when music was notated in a four-line staff, and clefs were movable to denote middle C, which varied according to the range.
The 'soprano' clef, and 'mezz-soprano' and all that crap are just the C clef(tenor clef), moved to different lines to show where that clef's 'c' is.
www.gamingforce.com /forums/showthread.php?t=55838   (364 words)

  
 BERKLEE | Arranging Question 3C
In this example, the clef shown is one of the "C" clefs.
This "C" clef is the "tenor clef." Even though the clef is named "tenor clef," it is not the clef in which parts for tenor saxophone are written.
The transposed parts for ALL saxophones are normally written in treble clef, no matter how high or low the actual sound.
www.berklee.edu /assessments/arg/argq3C.html   (106 words)

  
 Clef : Tenor clef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The bass clef uses the F clef to assign the note F below middle C to the second line from the top of the staff.
The C clef is sometimes also used to indicate the mezzosoprano or flautalto clef, which assigns C to the second line from the bottom of the staff.
The C clef on the first line means soprano clef[?] which works for violin and the clarinet in A. back - continue...
www.eurofreehost.com /te/Tenor_clef_2.html   (436 words)

  
 Introductory Studies in Tenor & Alto Clef for Trombone "Before Blazhevich": A Review
While Blazhevich’s quirky etudes are excellent studies for teaching clef reading while solving varied musical problems, the typical complaints are that the first section (where studies are limited by an expanding number of positions) is too simplistic and the studies in all keys and positions are too difficult for younger students.
Introductory Studies in Tenor & Alto Clef for Trombone “Before Blazhevich” by Brad Edwards is intended to bridge the gap in the clef study literature between the overly simplistic and the overly difficult and to provide an improved introductory experience to the second section of the Blazhevich Clef Studies.
Instead of Blazhevich’s approach of studies in all clefs limited by positions, Introductory Studies uses “Guidepost” notes to help the student transfer his or her skills reading bass clef to tenor and alto clef.
www.trombone.org /articles/library/viewarticles.asp?ArtID=224   (591 words)

  
 Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Staffs, Clefs & Pitch Notation
The clef establishes the pitch of the note on one particular line of the staff and thereby fixes the pitch of all the other notes lying on, or related to, the same staff.
The note we call middle C and which lies in the middle of the alto clef (for clarity, we have shown it in red), lies one line below the five lines of the treble clef and lies one line above the five lines of the bass clef.
The alto clef is one of a number that use the C clef symbol, so named because the the clef symbol is centered on the horizontal line, marked in red in the diagram to the right, associated with the note middle C. The alto clef is also known as the counter-tenor clef.
www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory1.htm   (4179 words)

  
 Sheet Music Bordogni Vocalises at Slidebone.com
Tenor clef for Bordogni's keys, Alto clef for Rochut's keys.
The most challenging to perform and the most difficult to coordinate with accompaniments, these studies are numbered 74 to 109 (except 106) by Rochut, and there is one more study not transcribed by Rochut.
Not transcribed by Rochut, these challenging duets are presented in tenor clef.
www.slidebone.com /musicbooks.html   (359 words)

  
 Clef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A clef is a sign at the beginning of a stave which gives the starting point for finding the note pitch of notes on the stave.
The treble clef is an old-fashioned letter "G", and it curls round the second line of the stave, indicating that a note on this line has the note name "G".
The bass clef is an old-fashioned letter "F", and it has the two dots either side of the fourth line, indicating that a note on this line has the note name "F", the "F" below middle "C", in the centre of a man's singing voice.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/neil_hawes/theory08.htm   (348 words)

  
 NWCForum - What is a Tenor Clef?
This clef would have had something like the G string as the middle line of the staff (corresponding to the bottom line of the bass clef, which is the absolute pitch it sounds).
In other words, the treble clef has a dot in the centre of the fat base, on line 2, that indicates line 2 is G. That's why it is referred to as a G clef Similarly, the bass clef has two dots that indicate the position of F, and is known as the F clef.
The G clef (not treble clef) has a "circle and crosshairs" (not a dot in the centre of the fat base) that indicates the position of the G. Its placement on the staff indicates that it is a treble clef.
www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/3667.htm   (6124 words)

  
 Using clefs
The instruments use the clef which is closest to their range, so that the notes are found as much as possible inside the staff.
It is sometimes called G clef second line, to avoid confusing it with the last clef which has the same symbol but which is placed on the first line.
These clefs are respectively called C clef first line, C clef second line, C clef third line and C clef fourth line, referring to the line of the staff where the C note is placed.
www.arpegemusic.com /manual/EN290.htm   (1143 words)

  
 NWCForum - Clefs
The difference between the C clef and the others is that it is still commonly used in more than one position: On the middle line, it's the "alto clef", and on the line above that, the "tenor clef".
The soprano clef (actually Soprano staff, but that terminology is obsolete) may be represented by the C clef on the bottom line, or the G clef on the middle line (which was seldom used).
I sometimes use c clefs for my personal concert-pitch scores of wind music, since alto clef is the best fit for the range of the alto saxophone, for example, and I find reading tenor clef less disorienting than the octave transposed treble most tenor-pitch instruments use.
www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/2546.htm?rcnt=24   (2580 words)

  
 Help! Is this real? - www.ezboard.com
So, a bass clef open G would be printed as an open D in tenor clef.
But the 4th position G on the A string was critical for me. In tenor clef this is the first ledger line above the staff.
Actually, this tenor clef is probably good for me. I teach piano and flute and have had a good reminder on how hard it is to initially learn to read music.
www.cello.org /heaven/mbarchs/sept7/helptnr.htm   (942 words)

  
 Tenor Clef Is Easy - how to learn the tenor clef.>
All her bassoon students learn the tenor clef at the same time as they learn bass clef - from the beginning.
There is no mystery to learning the tenor clef.
If you do as Sandra says, you will be playing tenor clef immediately and naturally.
www.drdowningmusic.com /Tenor-Clef.html   (233 words)

  
 Lesson 24: Other Clefs
With the neutral clef, no pitches are indicated, because this clef is used by instruments that produce no specific pitch: snare drum, bass drum, tom toms, etc. The staff also looks a little unusual: it is obviously a staff for two different percussion instruments, one with a high sound, the other with a low sound.
This 2-line staff, with the neutral clef at the beginning would be ideal for two different sizes of tom toms.
Here is each clef with a key signature of seven sharps and seven flats correctly placed.
www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /24clefs.html   (543 words)

  
 American School of Double Bass
Aside from the truism that the little “arrow” of the “3“ of the tenor clef points to “middle C“; (the lowest C on our G-string), there is precious little guidance on how to read this clef.
The lowest line in bass clef is a G, and the lowest ledger line above the tenor clef is also a G. The second to the lowest line in bass clef is B, and the next higher ledger line of the tenor clef is also a B, and so on.
Notate in tenor clef one note on one side, and the corresponding note in bass clef on the other side.
www.asodb.com /tips/tips0001.html   (636 words)

  
 Clef : Tenor clef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There are three commonly used types of clef symbols: the G clef, the F clef, and the C clef, All of these clef symbols intentionally resemble the cursive[?] forms of their respective letters.
Thisn'tation is used mostly for the G and F clefs.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Clef : Tenor clef.
www.eurofreehost.com /te/Tenor_clef.html   (269 words)

  
 Guitar Tab Universe - Forum -> Tenor Clef
On the treble clef the same high C is now on the fourth line of the staff (fourth from bottom).
It might be a big ask to become fluent in tenor clef in just five days, but you've got the piece and you should have plenty of time to work on it.
in soprano, mezzon soprano, alto and tenor clef: middle C is where the two cruved lines meet.
www.guitartabs.cc /forum/index.php?showtopic=144267&view=getnewpost   (556 words)

  
 Trombone F o r u m : Learn Tenor Clef?!
I want to learn tenor clef because I think it will be useful...
all you do is move the C from the first ledger line above the bass clef staff onto the 4th line of a tenor clef staff...then jus tinker with your ear and figure out the positions for the really high stuff on your own...
It is the Blazevich Clef Studies for Trombone.
www.8notes.com /f/30_31173.asp   (716 words)

  
 Trombone F o r u m : the value of tenor clef
Yeah, it is MUCH easier to just learn tenor clef than to try to tell people to trasnpose everything for you.
Bass trombone was in Bass clef, Tenor trombone was in Tenor clef, and Alto trombone was in Alto clef.
I recently had to double on some bassoon parts in a pit orchestra I was in, but since bassoon and bari sax parts are on the same staff lines (disregarding the clef), all I had to do was mentally add 3 sharps to the key signature.
www.8notes.com /f/30_97137.asp   (966 words)

  
 Tenor Clef
A clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns.
English words defined with "tenor clef": Viola da braccio.
Translations for "tenor clef"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/Tenor+Clef   (252 words)

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