On 14 Apr 2005, at 4:41 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
I'm looking at the Scherzo of Beethoven's 3rd Sonata for Cello and Piano (an old Peters edition). Measures 33 to 75 are all in tenor clef. If they were in bass clef the passage would look weirdly high: almost the whole passage would be above the staff.
But is that really a problem? Lots of violin and viola passages are almost entirely above the staff. I don't have that Beethoven Sonata in front of me, but so long as it does not go above an A4 (i.e., three ledger lines in bass clef), my own instinct would be to leave it in bass clef.
If you put it into treble clef there would be a lot of notes below the staff, which isn't good (see above).
Right, I understand that -- I never have ledger lines below the staff in treble clef on cello parts.
It's all a question of habit. With the three clefs, cellists rarely see more than three ledger lines above the staff and two below.
Do three ledger lines above bass clef really throw off many cellists? (Not a rhetorical question -- I'm quite curious. FWIW, the cellists I've worked with have all been fine with it.)
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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