

The use of different clefs makes it possible to write music for all instruments and voices, regardless of differences in range. A clef may be placed on a space instead of a line, but this is rare. The C-clef is mostly encountered as alto clef (placing middle C on the third line) or tenor clef (middle C on the fourth line). In modern music notation, the G-clef is most frequently seen as treble clef (placing G 4 on the second line of the staff), and the F-clef as bass clef (placing F 3 on the fourth line). Placing these clefs on a line fixes a reference note to that line-an F-clef fixes the F below middle C, a C-clef fixes middle C, and a G-clef fixes the G above middle C. The three clef symbols used in modern music notation are the G-clef, F-clef, and C-clef. Placing a clef on a staff assigns a particular pitch to one of the five lines, which defines the pitches on the remaining lines and spaces. For other uses of "Cle", see Cle (disambiguation).ĭiagram of treble, alto and bass clefs with identical-sounding musical notes aligned vertically Middle C represented on (from left to right) treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs Three clefs aligned to middle CĪ clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff. Anyone know how to change clefs halfway through a measure? I don't care if it doesn't work on playback."Clé" redirects here. The best workaround I can think of is to split the 1x 4/4 bar into 2x 2/4 bars, but that would add to the total measure count which is undesirable for this project. I already know I can change clef anytime I like at the start of a bar, and then back again just as easily at the end, but I haven't been able to figure this one out. I imagine all done to conserve our precious non-renewable ledger line resources. The way they wrote it out is with a bass clef at the start of the bar, but then partway through the bar there is a treble clef inserted (so say, the first 8 notes are notated in bass, and then the rest of the bar is in treble). They have a long run of ascending 16th notes that start quite low and end well into treble territory, all meant to be played by right hand. I'm re-transcribing someone's piano music (but I am not a pianist, so sorry if I describe this wrong).
