There is a practice, still used in France, called LECTURE. It is sightreading using clefs for key transposition.
It was used in other countries, but ha since been dropped. I suspect that clefs were very normal to both Messian and Gounod;-) Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/music/faculty/howey.php Owner of FINALE Discussion List ________________________________________ From: David W. Fenton [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: finale Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: OT: historical use of C clefs for voice parts (Florence + Michael) On 7 Nov 2010 at 10:42, Michael Lawlor wrote: > Messiaen used soprano clef in Vingt Lecons d'Harmonie (1951). > Being used to playing from C1 and various other clefs, I would be > happy for them to make a come-back. Hmm. Messiaen and Gounod. I seem to recall they have something in commmon...Maybe the movable clefs persisted longer in France. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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