Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 2002/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Clefs
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:45:15 -0500

On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:46:45 +0100, I asked:

> How do you introduce different clefs in your own teaching, Anna?

....but I should have looked in the archives:

http://www.sneezy.org/Databases/Logs/1999/10/000563.txt

I notice there too a young (1996) Dan Leeson saying he always uses clefs
rather than shifts to transpose.

Interesting that you learnt the alto clef in the way you describe
(not so muddily!) there, hanging things initially off 'the three B
naturals' that 'become' C's on passing from treble to alto clef.

It seems to me that whatever process you use, part of it must be to do
with building a sufficiently rich system of associations for yourself in
the clef you're learning. For example, there's a haze of
piano-left-hand associations for a note read by me in the bass clef.
And my wife, a 'cellist, says that middle line in the tenor clef, A, is
for her 'obviously' an open string, which it isn't for me.

Do you practise reading individual clefs on the clarinet? Is it then
different when you read them on the piano?

Another thought: the Kodaly method builds a representation of each note
independent of any particular instrument. I wonder if that makes
learning clefs easier? Or playing in clefs on different instruments
easier?

Or both?

Tony
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