The C-clef when placed on the third line of the staff in musical notation. Also known as the viola clef for it use in music for viola and viola da gamba although it used as well for other instruments.thumb|right|Alto clef with reference C4
n. Music A symbol indicating which line of a staff represents the pitch of middle C. On the bottom line it becomes the soprano clef, on the middle line the alto clef, and on the third line above the bottom the tenor clef
Symbol placed on the five-line staff in traditional notation indicating the pitch of the notes and locating F on the fourth line from the bottom of the staff
n. A symbol indicating that the fourth line from the bottom of a staff represents the pitch of F below middle C. Also called F clef. a sign at the beginning of a line of written music that shows that the top line of the stave is the A below middle C
the lowest clef, it indicates F below middle C and is used for the left hand of piano music, and other instruments with a low pitch range eg double bass
This symbol indicates where the F below middle C is on a music staff This is where it gained the nickname 'F Clef' In modern music it is almost exclusively found indicating the 4th line from the bottom of the staff Together the Treble and Bass clef's make the Grand Staff
A clef is a symbol at the beginning of a line of music that indicates the pitch of the written notes. A symbol indicating the pitch represented by one line of a staff, in relation to which the other pitches of the staff can be determined. a sign at the beginning of a line of written music to show the pitch of the notes treble/bass clef (from clavis). (French; "key" ) Musical notation symbol at the beginning of a staff to indicate the pitch of the notes on the staff. Clefs were originally letters, identifying letter-named pitches, that were affixed to one or more of the staff's lines (thus providing a "key" to their identity). Knowing the identity of a single line permitted the musician to identify all the other lines and spaces above and below. Clefs were first regularly used in the 12th century. The Gothic letter forms of G and F evolved into the modern treble and bass clefs, respectively; the letter C evolved into the rarer alto, tenor, baritone, and soprano clefs. roman à clef Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Key West key cryptographic Key David McKendree Key Francis Scott novel with a key
A symbol placed at the left end of a staff to determine the relative pitch names and range of the notes on that staff The Treble clef is used for pitches within the range of the female singing voices and the Bass clef for a lower group of pitches, within the range of the male singing voice [Pitch Notation]
The symbol used at the beginning of a staff to indicate which lines and spaces represent which notes In modern practice, only three clefs are commonly used, the G clef or treble clef, the F clef or bass clef, and the C clef, when used as an alto clef
A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to indicate the pitch of the notes on the staff The most commonly used clefs in choral music are the G, or treble, clef and the F or bass clef On the keyboard, all the notes above middle C are said to be in the G clef; all the notes below middle C in the F clef
The symbol used at the begining of a music staff to indicate which lines and spaces will represent which notes In modern western music only three Clefs' are poularly used The Treble or' G Clef', the Bass or 'F Clef', and the Alto or 'C Clef'
(French; "novel with a key") Novel that has the extraliterary interest of portraying identifiable people more or less thinly disguised as fictional characters. The tradition dates to 17th-century France, when members of aristocratic literary coteries included in their historical romances representations of well-known figures in the court of Louis XIV. A more recent example is W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale (1930), widely held to portray Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole. A more common type of roman à clef is one in which the disguised characters are easily recognized only by a few insiders, as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins (1954)
n. A symbol indicating that the second line from the bottom of a staff represents the pitch of G above middle C. Also called G clef. a sign at the beginning of a line of written music which shows that the note written on the bottom line of the stave is an E above middle C