At 5:05 PM 10/28/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: >The part should be in treble clef, as others have suggested. The >alto clef was used for many alto parts until well into the 20th c. >(therefore an alto singer *ought* to be able to read it, though many >can't), but the tenor clef is completely out of bounds, since no >alto singer will be familiar with it or have any experience w. it.
Well, that's not quite true. Many female choristers with low voices will have been, at one time or another in the course of their career, asked to join the men in the tenor section, so it's incorrect to say that no alto singer will be familiar with the octave-displaced treble clef. That said, I concur completely with all the others who say the alto part should be written in a normal treble clef with all the leger lines. I'm pretty confident that alto singers would been even more perplexed by a traditional alto clef than by an 8vb treble clef, but both are unacceptable. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
