#clefs

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Little Ghost by Otfried Preußler

Artist : Nika Goltz (1925–2012)

[sabinerondissime]

[toutplacid]

Clefs d’un appartement au Pré-Saint-Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis) – gouache, 22 janvier 2025.

[necarion]

I do not understand how we ended up with the alto and tenor clefs. They could have just transposed an octave and everyone could have read it fine. But no, a bunch of instruments have to learn two additional, slightly different, clefs that are off from treble clef by a single half-line (plus an octave).

On the flip side, apparently 50 years ago the French musical tradition made its musicians learn 7 different clefs (bass, tenor, alto, treble, and then 3 different soprano clefs). Which seems super irritating. And then my baroque music teacher could take a piece of music, mentally switch the clef marking (and maybe pretend the key was an all-sharp or all-flat version of itself) and he could sight-transpose to any key.

We had a concert where the ensemble played a Bach organ concerto. The ensemble was playing at baroque pitch (a half-step down from A440 concert pitch), but the organ itself was at concert pitch. So the professor just played a half-step down. And naturally was, by far, the best and most accurate performer.

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Clefs Ferrari

[reno-matagot]

Garry Gay ~ Old keys on letter

[four-flats]

A stuffed animal a friend gave me

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This is officially the worst fucking treble clef I’ve ever drawn. Look at it. Look at it and weep.