On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:47:36 David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > > Dear Patrick, > > > >> If there's a desire to emphasize the abbreviated nature -- and > >> really, "abbreviated" is not the right word, since G is not an > >> abbreviation of "treble" -- a comment in the @lilypond would do > >> this. > > > > Instead of "abbreviated", I've used the word "synonym". > > Is "G" really a proper alternative name? I'd tend to call it > "shorthand" rather than "synonym".
Yes, the treble clef is alternatively also called the G-clef, since it defines the position of the g' (see also the wikipedia article on clef...). Before ~1800, the G clef was mainly used for violins, while all choral voices and most other instruments used either a C-clef of the bass clef, thus in German, it is now usually called the "Violin-Schlüssel". The English name "treble clef" seems to come from an even later time, after the notation for soprano has switched away from the C-clef to the G-clef. But the original name is still C-clef. Cheers, Reinhold _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
