This raises a totally tangential issue -- why aren't more clefs taught in music lessons at an earlier point? Why is it only those who seem destined for collegiate music study who ever are taught about clefs?
Question for you, David -- you play trombone, right? Most woodwinds only need to know one clef. Bassoons excepted, I suppose, and I think there are some old bass clarinet parts written in F clef. Violas need to know treble and alto, and I guess cellos have to know those plus bass. What other non-keyboard instrument needs to know more than one clef?
I can't remember not knowing how to read a grand staff (thanks to very early piano lessons). I don't know why C clef always gave me fits when I was studying composition in college. I forced myself to learn it by singing along with the viola part in symphonies; then I noticed that a trombone in tenor clef, doubling a Bb trumpet at the octave, played on the same lines and spaces. In our score-reading classes we'd get 18th century choral scores that were written in soprano, alto, and tenor clefs.
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