Reply #43: Yes - but badly [View All]

[tjwmason]

I learned the treble clef at a very early age for both the piano and the violin, then as I progressed with the piano I developed the bass clef as well. I switched from violin to viola which necessitated learning the alto clef (and the tenor clef is exactly the same in terms of the principle concerned).

Whilst singing in a church choir I learned the principles of neume notations for plain-chant singing which has two clefs (the c clef and the f clef).

At the moment I can figure out treble or bass clef music on a piano fairly quickly (though my playing is horrendously out of practice). If I sit down and work things out slowly I can do the same with alto and tenor clefs - though I can only play these on a piano or other keyboard instrument - so too with the neume notations. If singing as part of a group, I can sing along sight-reading from neume script, but by no means can I sight-sing it.