On 6 Nov 2010 at 10:14, Florence + Michael wrote: > I recently received the conductor's score of Gounod's Faust > (Henschelverlag Berlin, 1972). I was surprised to find C-clefs used > for the voice parts in a score this recent: all female voices are > written in soprano clef and the tenors in tenor clef. I thought this > practice had died out in the 19th century. Can anybody point me to > detailed information about the history of the use of C-clefs? And does > anybody know of other 20th century editions that use them for voice > parts?
Likely it's not a new engraving, but a reprint of a 19th-century edition. Some of the Denkmäler editions from the early 20th century also use old clefs, but not all of them. It would seem that the period before the first war was the transition for this, so far as I can tell, though in the case of those, they were semi-critical editions of old music, so they were likely more conservative in retaining old clefs than "modern" music would have been. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
