Baritone and treble clef

[Simon Albrecht]

On 13.02.2017 17:43, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > The piece I am setting can be sung by a baritone or by a mezzo-soprano.
> >   In the score, therefore, there are 2 vocal staves, one for each of the
> > alternative voices.  The staves contain identical music apart from an
> > octave diffence in pitch and different clefs.
> Aside: Have you thought about just having one staff, and putting the clef 
> modifier (i.e., subscript 8) in parentheses?

I agree. Baritones have no trouble whatsoever singing from treble clef. 
I’d not even bother to put the clef modifier there, because it’s 
self-explanatory if you write ‘Mezzosoprano or baritone’. But that may 
be from my personal dislike of \clef "treble_8". Historically, when 
people started notating tenors with treble clefs, it was transposing 
notation, the whole ‘octavated clef’ idea being in this case a 
misconception. (advanced piano notation being a different issue)

Best, Simon