On Apr 15, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 15 Apr 2005, at 10:06 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
As a bassoonist and composer, I never, ever, write the tenor clef, though of course I can read it fluently. Any professional bassoonist, cellist, or trombonist will know how to read the treble clef, and IMO the tenor clef should be retired permanently.
Makes sense to me.
(Counting the seconds until the howls of outrage begin... )
Well, this isn't a howl of outrage, but I find the tenor clef useful. If a part on bassoon, cello, or trombone sits consistently in a range where large numbers of ledger lines can be avoided in bass clef, I would use it. I concur, though, that constant clef changes are a pain, and a hindrance to concentration. I suspect that if the tenor clef were not available, then we would see many more clef changes to treble than if we had the passage written in tenor clef, so the tenor clef is certainly saving us clef changes.
Another hindrance to eliminating tenor clef is that treble clef in trombone writing is so consistently associated with Bb treble clef band parts (and NOT with high concert-pitch passages) that I would certainly question a trombone part written in treble clef that I saw.
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