At 8:10 PM +0200 4/15/05, Michael Cook wrote:
As to the idea of getting rid of tenor clef, try talking to a few cellists and see what they say. I find that it fits perfectly to a typical solo cello range where you basically stay most of the time up on the A-string, occasionally rocking over to the D-string.
Don't underestimate the power of tradition over logic (or even personal opinion). If logic trumped tradition, we'd all be speaking Esperanto, and we're not! For older music, at least, instrumentalists have to learn to read their traditional alternate clefs fluently, and once they've learned that, why would they want not to use them? It's up to the composers and arrangers to overcome their inertia and improve their musicianship by learning to read them as well. Boulanger certainly thought so, and taught the 9 clefs.
John
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