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treble clef

noun

, Music.
  1. a sign that locates the G above middle C, placed on the second line of the staff, counting up; G clef.


treble clef

noun

  1. music the clef that establishes G a fifth above middle C as being on the second line of the staff
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of treble clef1

First recorded in 1795–1805
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Example Sentences

Prosecutors showed a 2012 memo noting one such arrangement for Calamari Sr. bearing the former president’s initial - a D resembling a treble clef - and the handwritten notation, “OK.”

Prosecutors showed a 2012 memo noting one such arrangement for Calamari Sr. bearing the former president’s initial — a D resembling a treble clef — and the handwritten notation, “OK.”

How about Grizzly Bears Don’t Fly Airplanes for the lines of the bass clef, or Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips or Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet for the lines of the treble clef?

The bass and treble clefs were also once moveable, but it is now very rare to see them anywhere but in their standard positions.

While I’d been playing brass instruments for years, tuba parts are written in bass clef; I’d only ever read treble clef.

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