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The clef may be altered. Middle C is shown in every example.
\clef treble c2 c \clef alto c2 c \clef tenor c2 c \clef bass c2 c
Other clefs include:
\clef french c2 c \clef soprano c2 c \clef mezzosoprano c2 c \clef baritone c2 c \break \clef varbaritone c2 c \clef subbass c2 c \clef percussion c2 c \clef tab c2 c
Further supported clefs are described under Ancient clefs.
By adding _8
or ^8
to the clef name, the
clef is transposed one octave down or up, respectively,
and _15
and ^15
transpose by two octaves.
The clef name must be enclosed in quotes when it contains
underscores or digits.
\clef treble c2 c \clef "treble_8" c2 c \clef "bass^15" c2 c
Tweaking clef properties
The command \clef "treble_8"
is equivalent to setting
clefGlyph
, clefPosition
(which controls the vertical
position of the clef), middleCPosition
and
clefOctavation
. A clef is printed when any of the properties
except middleCPosition
are changed.
Note that changing the glyph, the position of the clef, or the
octavation does not in itself change the position of subsequent notes
on the staff: the position of middle C must also be specified to do
this. The positional parameters are relative to the staff center line,
positive numbers displacing upwards, counting one for each line and
space. The clefOctavation
value would normally be set to 7, -7,
15 or -15, but other values are valid.
When a clef change takes place at a line break the new clef symbol is
printed at both the end of the previous line and the beginning of the
new line by default. If the warning clef at the end of the previous
line is not required it can be suppressed by setting the Staff
property explicitClefVisibility
to the value
end-of-line-invisible
. The default behavior can be recovered
with \unset Staff.explicitClefVisibility
.
The following examples show the possibilities when setting these properties manually. On the first line, the manual changes preserve the standard relative positioning of clefs and notes, whereas on the second line, they do not.
{ % The default treble clef c'1 % The standard bass clef \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.F" \set Staff.clefPosition = #2 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #6 c'1 % The baritone clef \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.C" \set Staff.clefPosition = #4 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #4 c'1 % The standard choral tenor clef \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.G" \set Staff.clefPosition = #-2 \set Staff.clefOctavation = #-7 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #1 c'1 % A non-standard clef \set Staff.clefPosition = #0 \set Staff.clefOctavation = #0 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #-4 c'1 \break % The following clef changes do not preserve % the normal relationship between notes and clefs: \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.F" \set Staff.clefPosition = #2 c'1 \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.G" c'1 \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.C" c'1 \set Staff.clefOctavation = #7 c'1 \set Staff.clefOctavation = #0 \set Staff.clefPosition = #0 c'1 % Here we go back to the normal clef: \set Staff.middleCPosition = #0 c'1 }
Notation Reference: Ancient clefs.
Snippets: Pitches.
Internals Reference: Clef_engraver, Clef, OctavateEight, clef-interface.
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