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Mensural clefs

The following table shows all mensural 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, numbered from the lowest to the highest line. 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.

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

Description Supported Clefs Example


mensural C clef mensural-c1, mensural-c2,
mensural-c3, mensural-c4

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mensural F clef mensural-f

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mensural G clef mensural-g

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neomensural C clef neomensural-c1, neomensural-c2,
neomensural-c3, neomensural-c4

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petrucci style C clefs, for use on different staff lines (the example shows the 2nd staff line C clef) petrucci-c1, petrucci-c2,
petrucci-c3, petrucci-c4,
petrucci-c5

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petrucci style F clef petrucci-f

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petrucci style G clef petrucci-g

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See also

Notation Reference: see Clef.

Known issues and warnings

The mensural g clef is mapped to the Petrucci g clef.

Other languages: espaƱol.