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Ancient clefs

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

For modern clefs, see section Clef. For the percussion clef, see section Percussion staves. For the TAB clef, see section Tablatures.

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 section Clef. The note printed to the right side of each clef denotes the c' with respect to the clef.


modern style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-neo_mensural_c')
Supported clefs: neo_mensural_c1, neo_mensural_c2, neo_mensural_c3, neo_mensural_c4
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_c1)
Supported clefs: petrucci_c1 for 1st staffline
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_c2)
Supported clefs: petrucci_c2 for 2nd staffline
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_c3)
Supported clefs: petrucci_c3 for 3rd staffline
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_c4)
Supported clefs: petrucci_c4 for 4th staffline
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_c5)
Supported clefs: petrucci_c5 for 5th staffline
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural F clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_f)
Supported clefs: petrucci_f
[picture of music]

petrucci style mensural G clef (glyph: clefs-petrucci_g)
Supported clefs: petrucci_g
[picture of music]

historic style mensural C clef (glyph: clefs-mensural_c')
Supported clefs: mensural_c1, mensural_c2, mensural_c3, mensural_c4
[picture of music]

historic style mensural F clef (glyph: clefs-mensural_f)
Supported clefs: mensural_f
[picture of music]

historic style mensural G clef (glyph: clefs-mensural_g)
Supported clefs: mensural_g
[picture of music]

Editio Vaticana style do clef (glyph: clefs-vaticana_do)
Supported clefs: vaticana_do1, vaticana_do2, vaticana_do3
[picture of music]

Editio Vaticana style fa clef (glyph: clefs-vaticana_fa)
Supported clefs: vaticana_fa1, vaticana_fa2
[picture of music]

Editio Medicaea style do clef (glyph: clefs-medicaea_do)
Supported clefs: medicaea_do1, medicaea_do2, medicaea_do3
[picture of music]

Editio Medicaea style fa clef (glyph: clefs-medicaea_fa)
Supported clefs: medicaea_fa1, medicaea_fa2
[picture of music]

historic style hufnagel do clef (glyph: clefs-hufnagel_do)
Supported clefs: hufnagel_do1, hufnagel_do2, hufnagel_do3
[picture of music]

historic style hufnagel fa clef (glyph: clefs-hufnagel_fa)
Supported clefs: hufnagel_fa1, hufnagel_fa2
[picture of music]

historic style hufnagel combined do/fa clef (glyph: clefs-hufnagel_do_fa)
Supported clefs: hufnagel_do_fa
[picture of music]

Modern style means "as is typeset in current 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 contemporary 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 staffline it was printed.

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