Re: number of staff lines

[Mark Knoop]

At 12:04 on 09 Feb 2012, David Kastrup wrote:
>The old clefs reminiscent of chant notation can sit IIRC on either
>lines or in between.  The more modern clefs are rather fixed.  In
>practice, anything but the C clef is not seen shifted vertically, and
>even the C clef is only seen on anywhere but the middle line mainly in
>Baroque music and earlier.

The tenor clef (on the 4th line) is very common in cello, bassoon,
trombone music.

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Mark Knoop