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F clef   /ɛf klɛf/   Listen
F clef

noun
1.
A clef that puts the F below middle C on the fourth line of a staff.  Synonym: bass clef.






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"F clef" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'key,' because its position on the staff gave the 'key' to the position of the semitones and tones on the various lines and spaces. The six notes here mentioned are the G, A, B, C, D, E, in the bass staff. They could only be written (as they are yet) in one clef—namely, the F clef. The expression 'two notes have I,' as applied to the D, means that, in the key of G, D is called Sol; while in the key of C it would have the name Re; just as Hortensio is Hortensio, and at the same ...
— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor



Words linked to "F clef" :   clef, bass clef



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