Hi Don, 1. No there is no rule. Instead of changing the clef you could use 8va-signs. At the bottom of the upper staff you should not use more than three ledger lines. It gets really kinky collaborating with the lower staff.
2. If I would play this on the piano (or harpsichord or another interchangeable instrument) I would decide whether the phrase belongs to the right or the left hand. But modifying stem direction would be my tool of choice. Even if the LH is at the very bottom of the lower staff, you can direct the stems down. Looks weird, but helps the overview and therefore the music. Whatever helps the music is allowed! Hope I could help you, Philipp (another clarinetist out here) Am 13.05.2012 um 19:03 schrieb Don Simons: > This list is so quiet, I hope there's someone out there. > > I'm making an edition of the lute version of Bach's solo Cello suite #5, so > I can play it on harpsichord. The original is in two staves with bass and > tenor clef. I want to use only bass and treble clefs. The upper line is > centered around middle C and varies up or down by an octave. > > Are there any guidelines for how to assign notes to staves? The options I > can think of are > > 1. Keep the right-hand notes in the upper staff and change the clef there > between bass and treble as needed to avoid too many ledger lines. Is there > any rule or precedent about how many ledger lines is too many? As a former > clarinetist, I can deal with three. The advantage of this is that staff > placement dictates which hand to use to play the notes. Disadvantage is lots > of clef changes. > > 2. Keep the upper clef as treble and let the right-hand notes wander into > the lower staff as appropriate. The problem with this that there's no > immediate clue about which hand to use, when the upper line goes into the > lower staff. I could try to use stem directions for that (up=RH, down-LH). > But when the bass notes are very low and there are no other notes in the > lower staff, it looks stupid to use down-stems there. > > ??? > > --Don Simons > > > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
