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Clef. A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff. Placing a clef on a staff assigns a particular pitch to one of the five lines or four spaces, which defines the pitches on the remaining lines and spaces.
In Western musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp ( ♯ ), flat ( ♭ ), or rarely, natural ( ♮) symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music. The initial key signature in a piece is placed immediately after the clef at the beginning of the first line. If the piece contains a section in a different key, the ...
In the treble, alto, and bass clefs, the G ♯ in the key signature is placed higher than C ♯. However, in the tenor clef , it would require a ledger line and so G ♯ is placed lower than C ♯ .
G major is the key stipulated for the royal anthem of Canada, "God Save the King". The anthem " God Defend New Zealand " ("Aotearoa") was originally composed by John Joseph Woods in A-flat major , but after becoming New Zealand's national anthem in 1977, it was rearranged into G major to better suit general and massed singing. [5]
Alto clarinet. The alto clarinet is a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument pitched in the key of E ♭, though instruments in F have been made. In size it lies between the soprano clarinet and the bass clarinet. It bears a greater resemblance to the bass clarinet in that it typically has a straight body ...
The staff below has a key signature with three sharps (A major or its relative minor, F ♯ minor). The sharp symbol placed on the note indicates that it is an A ♯ instead of an A ♮ . In twelve-tone equal temperament tuning (the predominant system of tuning in Western music), raising a note's pitch by a semitone results in a note that is ...
Nonetheless, Joseph Haydn still gets credit for writing the timpani part at actual pitch with an F major key signature (instead of transposing with a C major key signature), a procedure that made sense since he limited that instrument to the tonic and dominant pitches. [1]
Its parallel major, G-sharp major, is usually replaced by its enharmonic equivalent of A-flat major, since G-sharp major has an F in its key signature, making it impractical to use. A-flat minor, its enharmonic, has seven flats, whereas G-sharp minor only has five sharps; thus G-sharp minor is sometimes used as the parallel minor for A-flat major.