>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 04:07:38 EDT > >I think I know what I did -- When I used the clef tool, I selected what >looks >like a bass clef on the far right of the top row. That clef is easy to >confuse with the regular bass clef. It put 3 flats at C, F, and G, I >thought, >but maybe those aren't C, F and G.
A few people have correctly pointed out that an F-clef on 3rd line is a Baritone Clef, but no one has responded to >However, I can't figure out what that clef would be used for. Maybe French >Horn? Not French Horn. The baritone clef is arguably the most exotic of the clefs Finale offers in its factory configuration. It isn't mentioned at all in some of the reference books I have (notably, the dtv _Atlas zur Musik_, a very handy little micro-encyclopaediea). For that, the venerable Lobe-Neumann _Katechismus der Musik_ (which, I believe, is available in English under the obvious translation of the title) lists _two_ baritone clefs, the other being the functionally equivalent 5th-line C-clef. So, whazzit gouldfer? Found in (very) old vocal music. In the good ol' days, when furry little creatures from Alpha Centurai were _real_ furry little creatures from Alpha Centurai and composers were _real_ composers who wrote canonic imitation... and parchment was what you wrote on and it was more expensive than a GB memory expansion for your Mac... When paper was really expensive, writing a canon so that all parts could be sung from a single staff, just telling the sopranos to read soprano clef, the altos to read alto, the tenors to read tenor, and the baritones to read baritone, etc... Back then, baritone clef was just another clef that everybody could read. Some composers might use it just to minimize ledger lines. My B�renreiter edition of Lasso's "Missa super Frere Thibault" (first printing of original: 1570) indicates that the lowest voice was written consistently in Baritone clef. Hope this helps, Peter PS: Tammy, can you please turn off the extremely annoying HTML? And, while you're at it, tell your ISP that you've gotten tons of mail from people who can't read your messages. (Yeah, I know AOL is a bitch with their HTML mail, but someone should tell them so.) --------------- <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/Litter/> --------------- Peter Castine | From the Litter Power Thesaurus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Statistics: lp.stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
