On Sep 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Peter Taylor wrote: > I've enjoyed this discussion. Treble clef for tenors, > with or without the "8", seems the most natural to me, > because the voice range is similar to soprano, albeit > an octave lower. But what about altos using > treble clef? If anything, that seems more awkward than > tenors using Treble8, yet nobody complains.
I've seen several printings of pop songs, in the Hal Leonard books and their ilk, where the melody is intended for a woman's voice in the low range. If they write it at pitch, it results in lots of ledger lines -- I've seen as low as four lines for D below middle C -- or else they write it in what appears to be soprano range but is evidently meant to be sung 8vb. I find alto voice parts in 8vb much more confusing than tenor voice parts in 8vb. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
