F clef
Americannoun
noun
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Thus Fig. 3, b, if the first measure of a composition, should have an F clef immediately preceding the G clef in the left-hand part.
From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Harris, Clement A.
The tenor voice ranges from C, second space of the F clef, to D, second space in the treble clef.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
The F clef requires three strokes, owing to the dots, each of which takes one to itself.
From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Harris, Clement A.
When the G clef is used the staff is usually referred to as the treble staff, and when the F clef is used, as the bass staff.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
The G clef, also, when first introduced, was often written upon the third or the first line; the F clef, moreover, was not definitely established on the fourth line until toward 1700.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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