ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the integration of musicianship skills instruction with written skills instruction and the theory lecture. It underscores the value of combining the human senses, aural, oral, tactile (keyboard), and visual, in understanding the intellectual concepts of music theory. The chapter provides the complete set of “C” clefs, bass clef, and treble clef. Many American and European conservatories still require their students to read music in all five “C” clefs today. The chapter uses only two, the tenor and alto clefs, since they are the only ones still commonly in use today. Besides being “the father of the staff,” Guido was the great popularizer of solmization—assigning syllables to pitches as an aid to sight singing. He drew upon the hymn Ut queant laxis, in which each phrase begins a step higher than the preceding one. Today, these are known as “Solfege” syllables.
