The best way to get familiar with the treble clef is to just play or sing music using the clef and get used to it. Of course, the bass would remain using the bass clef. In the 18th century and earlier, it would have been more common to see the soprano singing using the soprano clef, the alto using the alto clef, and the tenor using a tenor clef instead of transposing treble clef. When we look at a typical choral score today with SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass), most of the clefs have been changed to treble clefs. In fact, in the Songbird Music Podcast interview with Professor Peter van Tour, we learn that in the Neapolitan conservatories of Italy in the 18th century, you never see the treble clef among the partimento manuscripts.Ĭhoral music changed from C clefs to treble clefs What is really interesting is that in the first part of the 18th-century, it was more common to see keyboardists using the soprano “C” clef instead of the treble clef that we commonly see today. That is, a treble clef and a bass clef combined. The treble clef replaced the soprano clef on the keyboardĪs a general rule, pianists read music notation with a “Grand Staff”. After centuries, the merged G and S would begin to represent our current treble clef. Eventually, due to transcribing, the sol would become S and the S would merge with the letter G. The reason for this is that in the past, church musicians would sing using hexachordal solfeggio and G would correspond with Sol, for G-solreut, and the “hard hexachord”. One prominent theory about the current shape of the modern treble clef is that it represents both the letters G and S. Mezzorfortist – Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 3.0) Some students find it helpful to use mnemonics to memorize the notes of the treble clef.įor the notes in the spaces, it is easy because the four letters already make up a word FACE.įor the notes on the lines, here are a few fun mnemonics: Useful mnemonics to remember the notes of the treble clef Let’s use a mnemonic to help remember them. They don’t seem to make a recognizable word. This grouping of letters is a little tricker than the ones in the spaces. Here are the notes of the treble clef on the 5 lines of the stave. Notes in the lines of the treble clef Note Name As you can see, it forms an easy word to remember: FACE. Here are the notes of the treble clef in the spaces of the stave. Notes in the spaces of the treble clef Note Name To learn the notes of the treble clef, it is useful to separate the notes into two groups (from bottom to top):
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