On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:28 PM, John Howell wrote:
Andrew is quite right, but other instruments whose normal range crosses between the treble and bass clefs solve the problem through transposed parts.
This is true in many cases but by no means all. Piano. Organ. Or if you think grand-staff instruments shouldn't count, consider the marimba.
I might point out as well that the range of the trombone is exactly the same as that of the horn, yet it is entirely possible, and commonplace, to notate its full range w.o resort to either a transposition or any C clef, much less the alto clef that David Fenton deemed "irreplaceable for instruments whose effective range straddles middle C."
There seems to be an unspoken assumption at work here, to the effect that if an instrument is assigned two clefs, one of them must be a C clef. This is of course not true.
If I had my absolute druthers (wh. of course I don't), both the viola and the clarinet would be treble-clef instruments that switched to bass clef for low-lying passages.
Just like the marimba.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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