Steve Larsen wrote: >I'm not aware of any time or place that notated the tenor part in bass clef >when using a separate staff.
Agreed. I've seen a ton of opera and choral scores from 17th century to 20th, and I've never seen this. Choral tenors are combined with the basses in a bass clef when SATB is put into two staves hymnbook-style. Otherwise tenors are on the octave-below treble clef, either marked or unmarked. Unless you go back even earlier, in which case all chorus parts are in movable C clefs. But never tenor in a bass clef. (There is, incidentally, some small tradition of the reverse -- ie, writing baritone parts in the 8vb treble clef -- particularly in English music in the late 19th and early 20th century. You'll see this in Vaughn Williams' scores, for example.) mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
