It's even weirder than that. All the staves start out in base clef, then the piano staves switch to treble staves. One switch occurs in the middle of a measure! This music is weirding me out.
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Given that I was grooving to a recording of a trio-sonata yesterday that was written for two flutes, a tuba, and a tambourine; you could say I have a thing for weird music.
Am also thinkink I need a music related icon these days.
Ignore the fact that it says "piano" in the file name for a moment.
1) I have never seen that left-hand right-hand notation in my entire classical/jazz/pop piano playing career.
2) For piano that is an utterly bizzare way to finger that run. It puts the right thumb on a black note before the first right finger plays a white note. No. That's exactly the screw-up one has fingering instructions to avoid.
3) At no point does that piece have one hand have more than two notes at a time. Pianist's default chords are three notes, and can handle four or more. In particular, the whole last system would normally put the lower right hand note into the left hand's part for clarity and ease.
4) Four-note, two-note-per-hand chords are characteristic of a different insrument I play.
Obviously, I wouldn't have realized that on my own. Did you see the other comment where I posted the clef changes? This music is weird (or maybe not, and I haven't been exposed to music enough to realize it's not that far off).
I think a harp would sound nice. I'll have to try this. Since I'm using a computer program rather than an actual instrument, it would be easy to switch.
No worries. :) There's nothing particularly weird about those clefs on an instrument of sufficient range.
The conventional range of a piano score is the range of human voices. We humans like our music there, generally speaking. But that's a range of only about three octaves. There's lots and lots of other notes, too, higher and lower than that. So sometimes for effect those instruments which have the range to do so shove everything up or down.
I agree that there's nothing odd about the shifts between bass and treble clef in a staff, but I was amused by the fact that the cello part uses three clefs ... I'm not used to seeing the C clefs[*] switched in and out the way G and F clefs often are -- in the past when I've seen an alto or tenor clef it's stuck for that voice for the whole piece. Now I'm wondering how common throwing a C clef into cello music is. (I also see a change from bass clef to a C clef in the middle of a measure (on an off-beat yet), which I can't remember having seen before.
In guitar music, even when it would be much easier to read with a clef change, we never change clefs, but we do sometimes do the dotted line and "8va" mark instead of oodles of ledger lines. If more guitarists read more than just treble clef[**], I think switching clefs, as I'm used to seeing in parts for other instruments, would sometimes be more convenient.
[*] I can never remember which line makes it alto clef and which makes it tenor clef -- I just see "C is on that line". But
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I'm now on a platform that supports PDFs, and I've clicked through to the whole score. Other parts of it are much more conventional to piano music (three note chords, etc). So I dunno. The cover says it's an arrangement for piano and cello of an orchestral piece; maybe the arranger just sucked?
Yah, I too just noticed that it's a "reduction" of a cello+orchestra piece (and now I'm wondering what the full score looks like). But I've also been imagining (since reading your earlier comment) how it would sound played by my favourite harp+cello duo, and at least in my head that sounds pretty darned cool.
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1) I have never seen that left-hand right-hand notation in my entire classical/jazz/pop piano playing career.
2) For piano that is an utterly bizzare way to finger that run. It puts the right thumb on a black note before the first right finger plays a white note. No. That's exactly the screw-up one has fingering instructions to avoid.
3) At no point does that piece have one hand have more than two notes at a time. Pianist's default chords are three notes, and can handle four or more. In particular, the whole last system would normally put the lower right hand note into the left hand's part for clarity and ease.
4) Four-note, two-note-per-hand chords are characteristic of a different insrument I play.
Hon, I think that's a harp score.
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I think a harp would sound nice. I'll have to try this. Since I'm using a computer program rather than an actual instrument, it would be easy to switch.
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The conventional range of a piano score is the range of human voices. We humans like our music there, generally speaking. But that's a range of only about three octaves. There's lots and lots of other notes, too, higher and lower than that. So sometimes for effect those instruments which have the range to do so shove everything up or down.
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In guitar music, even when it would be much easier to read with a clef change, we never change clefs, but we do sometimes do the dotted line and "8va" mark instead of oodles of ledger lines. If more guitarists read more than just treble clef[**], I think switching clefs, as I'm used to seeing in parts for other instruments, would sometimes be more convenient.
[*] I can never remember which line makes it alto clef and which makes it tenor clef -- I just see "C is on that line". But ( ... )
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