Re: MusicXML Clefs

I wrote a blog post about this a couple of years ago:
https://modelling-music.com/how-five-line-stave-does-so-much/

Doesn't add much to what others have said but has some nice pictures
illustrating the point.

James

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 4:47 AM Albert Hart <alhart369@gmail.com> wrote:

> Re: https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/issues/316#issuecomment-631558362
> "You might be better off asking questions like this on our mailing list
> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-music-notation/> instead of
> GitHub. We try to reserve GitHub issues for ideas and bug reports as
> opposed to user support questions."
>
> I posted this because it sounded like a "bug" to me, that the musicXML
> format allows note and line in <clef> definition, and allows offsetting the
> octave, but does not say what octave to use.
>
> If MuscXML only supports clefs by name - G, F, C, etc. - why does it
> include the "line" attribute. Are their "G" clefs which have the G on a
> different line. Is there is a clef like G/5 instead of G/2?
>
> --
> Al
>


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