G clef

American  

noun

Music.

1. treble clef.

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G clef British  

noun

1. another name for treble clef

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Example Sentences

Example: The G clef makes the second line represent the pitch G. Avoid "fixes G on."

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

Thus, e.g., the G clef shows us not only that the second line of the staff represents G, but that the first line represents E, the first space F, etc.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

Between these extremes lie eleven octaves; C of the G clef having 258-7/8 vibrations to the second, and its octave above 517-1/2.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

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)