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F clef

noun

, Music.


F clef

noun

  1. another name for bass clef
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Figure 1.8: It is rare these days to see the G and F clefs in these nonstandard positions.

In addition to this Guido is generally credited with the introduction of the F clef.

The F clef is on that line which its interior termination is on, and which it curls round either to the right or the left, and which has a dot above and below.

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.

The F clef is made either thus, , or thus, the dots being placed one on either side of the fourth line of the staff, which is the particular point that the clef marks.

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