Originally posted by Roslynmuse
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Reading and writing music - leger lines - stratospheric or subterranean
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostThere are other instruments besides the piano, y'know.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostYes. 8va and 15 make more sense to keyboard players as the fingerings and spacings are the same at different octaves. It's quite different for woodwind and strings, so in some ways leger lines are more intuitive for them.
The comment re sight reading earlier would also be relevant - no point in needlessly introducing a few extra milliseconds of brain processing time to confuse players if that can be avoided - surely - or do composers think performers need to be kept "on their toes" and need extra mental stimulation? Perhaps that keeps dementia at bay.
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Within piano music, probably because of their occurrence in a good deal of the repertoire, I don't have any trouble sightreading anything up to five leger lines below or above the staff (E6 or A0, at least as pianists account for pitch [i.e. C4 = middle C]); for the remaining 2/3rds of an octave an 8va is better. For other instruments, I have no idea. Flautists will complain a great deal about any note higher than D6 regardless of whether it's written with an 8va or not, and I'm fairly sure I've seen loco F6s in violin parts. And yes, 8va should be avoided in clarinet parts where possible, though I suppose any clarinetist capable of playing a written D6 would also be capable of deciphering an 8va line. (Have never seen a note lower than A0 in a tuba part, though I'm sure Richard Barrett has asked for one at some point.)
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Originally posted by kea View PostHave never seen a note lower than A0 in a tuba part, though I'm sure Richard Barrett has asked for one at some point.
Synthesisers could generate "sounds" down to low frequencies - though I'm not sure what the LFO range of a usual synth is, and LFOs are often used to modulate other sounds, rather than directly produce output. I think human hearing - as we know it - doesn't really go much below 20 Hz, but lower frequencies can be felt as chest vibrations. It is thought that some marine animals, such as whales can detect lower frequency vibrations - perhaps down to 12Hz.
My calculations suggest that C0 is 9 leger lines below the stave on the bass clef.
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