tenor clef

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   a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns

   Broaderclef

Questions about tenor clef

What does tenor clef mean?

tenor clef means "a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns".

Is tenor clef a common word?

tenor clef is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.