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Clef meaning
A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff
Synonyms of Clef
Using Clef
- The main meaning on this page is: A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff
- Useful related words include: musical notation.
- In the example corpus, clef often appears in combinations such as: treble clef, clef is, bass clef.
Context around Clef
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clef
- In this selection, "clef" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bass, treble, soprano, diatonic, baritone and french stand out and add context to how "clef" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the c clef is placed and french violin clef. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clef" sits close to words such as abidjan, acb and accesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clef
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Baritone clef † Baritone clef Diatonic scale on C, baritone C-clef. (11 words)
French violin clef † French clef Diatonic scale on C, French violin clef. (12 words)
Mezzo-soprano clef † Mezzo-soprano clef Diatonic scale on C, mezzo-soprano clef. (13 words)
Percussion instruments with identifiable pitches do not use the neutral clef, and timpani (notated in bass clef) and mallet percussion (noted in treble clef or on a grand stave ) are usually notated on different staves than unpitched percussion. (38 words)
Some band scores have parts for bass guitar, but in the event that a score does not, the bass guitarist normally plays tuba/sousaphone, bassoon, baritone-bass clef, euphonium-bass clef, or trombone music. (34 words)
Music for percussive instruments without a definite pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef ; More often a treble clef (or sometimes a bass clef) is substituted for rhythm clef. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Music for percussive instruments without a definite pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef ; More often a treble clef (or sometimes a bass clef) is substituted for rhythm clef.
About this sound Play ( help · info ) Where the G-clef is placed on the first line of the stave, it is called the French clef or French violin clef.
As the true tenor clef has fallen into disuse in vocal writings, this "octave-dropped" treble clef is often called the tenor clef.
Baritone clef † Baritone clef Diatonic scale on C, baritone C-clef.
French violin clef † French clef Diatonic scale on C, French violin clef.
Mezzo-soprano clef † Mezzo-soprano clef Diatonic scale on C, mezzo-soprano clef.
Percussion instruments with identifiable pitches do not use the neutral clef, and timpani (notated in bass clef) and mallet percussion (noted in treble clef or on a grand stave ) are usually notated on different staves than unpitched percussion.
The use of alto clef is usually confined to orchestral first trombone parts, with the second trombone part written in tenor clef and the third (bass) part in bass clef.
This Tab-sign, like the Percussion clef, is not a clef in the true sense, but rather a symbol employed instead of a clef.
About this sound Play ( help · info ) The neutral or percussion clef is not a clef in the same sense that the F, C, and G clefs are.
About this sound Play ( help · info ) Where the C-clef is placed on the first line of the stave, it is called the soprano clef.
About this sound Play ( help · info ) Where the C-clef is placed on the fourth line of the stave, it is called the tenor clef.
About this sound Play ( help · info ) Where the C-clef is placed on the second line of the stave, it is called the mezzo-soprano clef.
Concert-pitch music in bass clef can be read on an E instrument as if it were in treble clef.
For this reason, the terms G-clef and treble clef are often seen as synonymous.
In present-day notation, a special percussion clef is used, while previously the bass clef was used.
It is precisely the equivalent to the other more common form of the baritone clef, an F clef placed on the 3rd line (see above ).
Other clefs Octave clefs Three types of suboctave treble clef showing middle C Diatonic scale on C, suboctave clef.
Six of these, however, are redundant clefs (for example, a G-clef on the third line would be the same as a C-clef on the first line).
Some band scores have parts for bass guitar, but in the event that a score does not, the bass guitarist normally plays tuba/sousaphone, bassoon, baritone-bass clef, euphonium-bass clef, or trombone music.
Common combinations with clef
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- treble clef 19×
- clef is 14×
- bass clef 12×
- the clef 9×
- tenor clef 6×
- clef or 5×
- clef and 5×
- baritone clef 4×
- mezzo-soprano clef 4×
- clef was 4×