Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 2002/04
From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Clefs
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 04:46:45 -0500
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:01:43 +0000, acb@-----.is said:
> Glad to hear Sean mention the benefits of clef reading as a
> transposition technique. I have found it immensely useful in teaching,
> as well as in playing.
What I'm about to post is very obvious and elementary, I know, but it
constituted my fundamental realisation as a child that 'funny' clefs
weren't as mysterious as I'd previously imagined. (Nobody bothered to
point it out to me, or perhaps I just wasn't listening!)
Given that the Treble and Bass clefs are:
_
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ I TREBLE CLEF
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ _I
----MIDDLE C---- _
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ I BASS CLEF
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ _I
...then for example the ALTO clef is just:
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------ _
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ I
----MIDDLE C---- I ALTO CLEF
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ _I
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------
...and the TENOR clef just:
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------ _
------------------------------ I
----MIDDLE C---- I
------------------------------ I TENOR CLEF
------------------------------ I
------------------------------ _I
------------------------------
------------------------------
How do you introduce different clefs in your own teaching, Anna?
Tony
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