-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2011 00:15 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale is > a nightmare. I can barely read bass clef, and can do that in my mind, > but the scores for soprano, alto, and tenor all use C-clefs, and in a > way that each score must be read in a unique way. I've never before seen > a score like this. The notes fit nicely on the staff, but I cannot read > them without a lot of mental gymnastics.
I’m afraid there’s not much for it except to learn to read them (these are probably tenor and alto clefs). As others have pointed out, a simple transposition is going to produce weird effects. And speaking as a trombone player who had to learn tenor clef to play orchestral stuff, you actually do get used to it fairly quickly. If it’s giving you trouble, use a paper copy with the line-notes penciled in (e.g., D F A C E for tenor clef) at the start of the line. I find that I mostly think in relative terms when reading tenor; e.g., the first note is a C, then there’s a third so it’s an E, etc. You could also try using some math as you go along: in the tenor clef, every note is one “notch” high relative to the treble clef, so a note on the 4th line should be moved down one to the 3rd space, which is a treble C. (You’ll be an octave off, but that is a much easier problem to solve.) For the alto clef, move the note up a notch for the treble note value. HTH, crism - -- Chris Maden, text nerd <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ > “Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.” — Frank Harte GnuPG Fingerprint: C6E4 E2A9 C9F8 71AC 9724 CAA3 19F8 6677 0077 C319 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2lq3AACgkQGfhmdwB3wxkusgCfTf+s1w/Yl7xLJmxsPAvGb5yy HFAAniP/1T//Sd63gKdV6SOJoKdsNe/T =pVLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
