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From: | Simon Albrecht |
Subject: | Baritone and treble clef |
Date: | Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:58:45 +0100 |
On 13.02.2017 17:43, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
The piece I am setting can be sung by a baritone or by a mezzo-soprano. In the score, therefore, there are 2 vocal staves, one for each of the alternative voices. The staves contain identical music apart from an octave diffence in pitch and different clefs.Aside: Have you thought about just having one staff, and putting the clef modifier (i.e., subscript 8) in parentheses?
I agree. Baritones have no trouble whatsoever singing from treble clef. I’d not even bother to put the clef modifier there, because it’s self-explanatory if you write ‘Mezzosoprano or baritone’. But that may be from my personal dislike of \clef "treble_8". Historically, when people started notating tenors with treble clefs, it was transposing notation, the whole ‘octavated clef’ idea being in this case a misconception. (advanced piano notation being a different issue)
Best, Simon
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