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Re: changes to Clef
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Nicolas Sceaux |
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Re: changes to Clef |
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:05:11 +0100 |
Le 31 janv. 2010 à 12:50, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit :
> Before ~1800, the G clef was mainly used for violins, while all choral voices
> and
> most other instruments used either a C-clef of the bass clef, thus in
> German, it is now usually called the "Violin-Schlüssel". The English name
> "treble clef" seems to come from an even later time, after the notation
> for soprano has switched away from the C-clef to the G-clef.
In France, during 17th and 18th, soprano voices ("dessus") were notated with
2nd line G-clef, whereas violins were notated with 1st line G-clef (or
sometimes 1st line C-clef). So called "bas-dessus" voices were notated with
1st-line C-clefs.
Nicolas