All the other parts are to be read as printed, proper attention being given to the alto and tenor clefs used in the parts of the trombones and violas.
The earlier examples, as already said, were without clefs or any means of ascertaining the key note.
There are no clefs or other indications of the key, and it is little better than sheer guesswork to attempt to decipher one of them, for want of some one single base mark to reckon from.
Hence the misdescription of the treble and bass clefs as "immovable," the C clef as "movable.
Note that all clefs are on lines; no clef is in a space.
The commonest fallacies are to suppose that if clefs are the right shape their exact position on the stave does not matter, and that their position varies.
Illustration] Young students generally think that above the bass clef comes the tenor, higher up still the alto, and above all; the treble clef, whereas all four clefs are part of the great stave.
My remarks will be confined to various peculiarities in the clefs used in 'cello music, and I shall also try to explain away some of the difficulties over which learners generally stumble.
The clefs at the beginning of the staffs are of course simply altered forms of the letters F, C, and G, which were written at first by Guido and others to make the old neume notation more definite.
Pitches represented by lines and spaces of a staff, the higher the line, the higher the pitch represented, signs called clefs at the beginning of each staff making clear the pitch names of the lines and spaces.
G Clef, F Clef, C Clef: These clefs when placed upon the staff, give its degrees their first, or primary pitch meaning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clefs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
