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clef

[klef] / klɛf /


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Tyler's coffin was designed by her family to reflect her love of music, with a microphone and treble clef engraved on each side.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

After all, her next book is a roman à clef about Gala, and writing about a woman who might be in dire straits would be exploitative.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2025

The story quoted a few skeptics—among them the writer Harry Monaghan, who’d written a well-received roman à clef five years prior, and who had a regular column in the Post.

From Slate May 27, 2023

Long was Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 roman à clef, “All the King’s Men.”

From Washington Post Nov. 15, 2022

Write the clef sign at the beginning of the staff, and then write the correct note names below each note.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

One of Sacks’ patients, for example, found that the embroidered border of his bathmat tended to transform into elaborate staves and clefs of music.

From Scientific American Apr. 22, 2013

The 3-D visuals during Franz Schubert are also uninspiring: the white smudges washing across the black screen aren't a patch on the spaceships and cascading treble clefs we get later.

From The Guardian Feb. 10, 2013

But the Sourcebook also includes such arbitrary signs as plus and minus in mathematics and the clefs in music.

From Time Magazine Archive

He studied at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, sang in choirs, doodled clefs & staffs on tablecloths and phone pads and dreamed of a career in music.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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