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clef (sh) and tenet (iou)


clef (sh)




(French; "key" )

Musical notation symbol at the beginning of a staff to indicate the pitch of the notes on the staff.

Clefs were originally letters, identifying letter-named pitches, that were affixed to one or more of the staff's lines (thus providing a "key" to their identity). Knowing the identity of a single line permitted the musician to identify all the Other lines and spaces above and below. Clefs were first regularly used in the 12th century. The Gothic letter forms of G and F evolved into the modern treble and bass clefs, respectively; the letter C evolved into the rarer alto, tenor, baritone, and soprano clefs.


tenet (iou)



tenet noun. L16.
[Latin, lit. 'he holds' 3 pres. sing. of tenere to hold, superseding earlier TENENT noun.]
A doctrine, dogma, principle, or opinion, in Religion, philosophy, Politics, etc., held by a group or person. Also loosely, any opinion held.
Isaiah Berlin He..was convinced of the validity of his..philosophical tenets. G. F. Kennan The ideological tenets of Russian communism.