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Definition of Alto clef
1. Noun. A clef that puts middle C on the third line of a staff.
Definition of Alto clef
1. Noun. (music) A type of C-clef when placed on the third line of the staff in musical notation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alto Clef
Literary usage of Alto clef
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The word alto means high, and the part was originally sung by either high tenors
or boys' voices. The viola is sometimes called the Alto. alto clef. ..."
2. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"alto clef. The С clef on the third line, which makes the note on that line c'.
... A trombone with the notation on the alto clef. ..."
3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"alto clef, or key: the С clef placed on the third line, used for alto parts. ...
Alto sign, alto clef: the C clef on the third line. See also alto clef, ..."
4. A theory of harmony founded on the tempered scale, with questions and by John Stainer, Sir John Stainer (1871)
"alto clef.—Soprano Clef.—Bass Clef.— Use of Tenor Clef.—Notes representing Sounds
of different Durations.—Corresponding Rests.—Dot.—Double Dot. ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"If a song is to be transposed a tone upward, the alto clef may be imagined, with
the proper changes in signature (two more sharps or two less flats), ..."
6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"Its part is written in the С alto clef, ... published in 1597,' this instrument
has a part written in the alto clef, from which the following is an extract ..."
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