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3.15.4 Ancient clefs

LilyPond supports a variety of clefs, many of them ancient.

The following table shows all ancient clefs that are supported via the \clef command. Some of the clefs use the same glyph, but differ only with respect to the line they are printed on. In such cases, a trailing number in the name is used to enumerate these clefs. Still, you can manually force a clef glyph to be typeset on an arbitrary line, as described in Clef. The note printed to the right side of each clef in the example column denotes the c' with respect to that clef.

Glyph Name Description Supported Clefs Example


clefs-neo_mensural_c modern style mensural C clef neo_mensural_c1, neo_mensural_c2, neo_mensural_c3, neo_mensural_c4

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clefs-petrucci_c1 clefs-petrucci_c2 clefs-petrucci_c3 clefs-petrucci_c4 clefs-petrucci_c5

petrucci style mensural C clefs, for use on different staff lines (the examples shows the 2nd staff line C clef).

petrucci_c1 petrucci_c2 petrucci_c3 petrucci_c4 petrucci_c5

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clefs-petrucci_f petrucci style mensural F clef petrucci_f

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clefs-petrucci_g petrucci style mensural G clef petrucci_g

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clefs-mensural_c historic style mensural C clef mensural_c1, mensural_c2, mensural_c3, mensural_c4

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clefs-mensural_f historic style mensural F clef mensural_f

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clefs-mensural_g historic style mensural G clef mensural_g

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clefs-vaticana_do Editio Vaticana style do clef vaticana_do1, vaticana_do2, vaticana_do3

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clefs-vaticana_fa Editio Vaticana style fa clef vaticana_fa1, vaticana_fa2

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clefs-medicaea_do Editio Medicaea style do clef medicaea_do1, medicaea_do2, medicaea_do3

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clefs-medicaea_fa Editio Medicaea style fa clef medicaea_fa1, medicaea_fa2

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clefs-hufnagel_do historic style hufnagel do clef hufnagel_do1, hufnagel_do2, hufnagel_do3

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clefs-hufnagel_fa historic style hufnagel fa clef hufnagel_fa1, hufnagel_fa2

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clefs-hufnagel_do_fa historic style hufnagel combined do/fa clef hufnagel_do_fa

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Modern style means “as is typeset in contemporary editions of transcribed mensural music”.

Petrucci style means “inspired by printings published by the famous engraver Petrucci (1466-1539)”.

Historic style means “as was typeset or written in historic editions (other than those of Petrucci)”.

Editio XXX style means “as is/was printed in Editio XXX”.

Petrucci used C clefs with differently balanced left-side vertical beams, depending on which staff line it is printed.

See also

In this manual: see Clef.

Bugs

The mensural g clef is mapped to the Petrucci g clef, until a new mensural g clef is implemented.

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