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Music notation glossary · Clefs

Alto clef

middle C on the middle line

As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.

In the score

Engraved by Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b

What it means

A C clef: the centre of the sign points to the line carrying middle C. It sits on the third line and is the viola's clef.

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