Are there more than three clefs?

no baritone clef? what about alto clef?

 

The ones I'm most familiar with are treble, bass, tenor and alto. You see tenor frequently with double bass music, and even more often with cello music, and alto fairly often with viola music.

I imagine there are others, but to what use those are put (and who would bother to learn them) I can't imagine.

 

Pacman is partially correct. Actually, there are...

Three Tenors

 

...and the Clefs can be moved anywhere on the staff.
Look at our Bass Clef: its two(2)dots are embracing the "F" LINE on the staff.

There's part of the Treble Clef symbol that intersects the "G" LINE on that staff.


And the Tenor Clef, too embraces a certain line.

Super D-
Correct, there are 'symbols' which designate play an octave lower or an octave higher...
8 va?

 

Back in the old days, it was pretty common to use one or two clefs, and move them around freely! A "g-clef" could be anywhere. Nowadays, we almost always use the fixed positions that are associated with bass, alto, tenor and sopran clef. or the F, C, and G clefs, named after the note they indicate.

 

i also learned about the movable c clef in high school music theory...it looks like a double bar line with the two dots around the line indicating c...if i remember correctly, the dots can be moved around to whatever line the composer wishes....you guys ever heard of this?

 

I thought alto/tenor was movable C clef because it is middle C where the arcs/curved lines meet.

 

maybe it is....i dunno for sure, though

 

Doesn't viola use C clef? I think French Horn music can be written in C clef, also.


Chris A.

 

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I think french horn can be written like that, my band teacher was talking about a song where she had a lot of wierd stuff like that.

I thought viola used the alto clef or something, Ill have to ask my friend to be sure

I know tenor clef is used a lot for cello and trombone when they get into really high notes.

Doesnt percussion music have a C clef on it too?

 

Sounds to me like you're describing tab. I KNEW IT!!!