alto clef

noun Music.

a sign locating middle C on the third line of the staff.

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Also called viola clef.

Origin:
1875–80

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first or root note and the seventh in a major scale

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alto clef

—n
	See also C clef Also called: viola clef the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff

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