On 2 Jul 2004 at 7:47, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > > On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 05:18 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, I have found especially in sight-reading that cellists will > > miss an initial tenor clef. I would rather not invite disaster. > > Placing the altered clef after the meter and key signatures draws > > the player's attention to the change. > > I wholeheartedly agree here. Once I wrote a piece in which the piano > part's right hand was in the treble-8vb clef (what some would say is > the "modern vocal tenor clef"), and every time I had it played I had > to verbally call attention to it or it would be in the incorrect > octave. If I had put in a clef change at the very beginning it would > have been much simpler-- even my composition prof at the time didn't > catch it! > > BTW, if you're wondering why I used that clef on piano... it was to > save from jumping back and forth from treble to bass, which would have > been necessary every 8 bars or so otherwise.
Why not treble clef with 8basso------ in the part? Seems much, much clearer to me -- most pianists I know of wouldn't have a clue how to interpret the treble8 clef. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
