That's more or less the effect of the tenor clef (which is a C clef) in the autograph facsimile of the lute suite BWV 995. But hardly any modern keyboard players, including your truly, are comfortable reading from tenor clef, or any other C clef except maybe alto clef.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Cornelius C. Noack >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:30 AM >To: Werner Icking Music Archive >Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Keyboard edition with modern clefs > >For what it's worth (probably not much): > >I have seen a modern edition of a baroque sonata (I believe for a flute and B.C. -- I >haven't seen the autograph, and unfortunately didn't keep the score) in which the >problem of choice between too wide ledgers and frequent clef changes is `solved' ( at >least for professionals of baroque style): >whereever the harpsicord notes tend to go off the staff awkwardly, the clef is changed >to a so-called `old C clef' , i.e. a c clef (viola) ON WHATEVER LINE IS APPROPRIATE >for that case. That means you have 4 extra choices for a clef! Looks practically >unreadable to me, at least for sightreading; > but apparently baroque players were quite used to that. > >Isn't that interesting? > >ccn. >-- >.................................................................. > > Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack > Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 > Universit"at Bremen Phone : +49 (421) 218-62031 > Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 > D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > Fax: 346 7872 > E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org > WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack >.................................................................. >------------------------------- >[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
