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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark D. Lew)
Subject: Re: [Finale] alto clef
> 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
Title: Alto clef
Dear Dennis,
If the pieces are from the 15th or early 16th century (Ockeghem,
Josquin, Isaac, Mouton, Févin, Certon, etc.), it's quite likely that
the ensemble should be ATTB, not SATB, in which case I would use the
modern tenor clef for the second part from the top and mark the
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
In the pieces I'm editing, the alto part, written in the traditional
alto clef (C3), of course, is generally fairly low, in other words
more often in the bottom half of the staff than in the upper half.
Which means, transcribed into treble clef, more often than not on
ledger lines. I'm very tem
d music.
You could leave it in Alto clef and have a mutiny...
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Subject: [Finale] alto clef
Alto part should be in treble-clef. Altos aren't trained to interpret
the real alto clef or the choral tenor clef (G clef at the octave.)
Altos are used to reading lots of leger lines.
d. collins wrote:
In the pieces I'm editing, the alto part, written in the traditional
alto clef (C3), of
I'd say that this topic is similar to the ledger line discussion that
we recently had. The modern standard of practice is to put alto vocal
parts in treble clef. They are used to reading f's and g's on ledger
lines. Of course, that means you need lots of space below the staff
for lyrics, etc
