clef
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Titled “Fiesta” in drafts, the novel is a roman à clef through and through, a story that may have been news across the Atlantic but rang clear as a church bell through the Latin Quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is not signed by Chopin, but the handwriting includes his distinctive bass clef.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
There is no more quotable novel about Hollywood than Carrie Fisher’s roman à clef, “Postcards From the Edge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The seamless overlap between real life and fictional counterparts, and the faithful reproduction of such well-established facts, conveys the author’s intention to offer a crystal clear clé to this roman à clef.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
It could also be their new logo—a black fist that’s pumping in the air with a treble clef cut out in the center.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
One of Sacks’ patients, for example, found that the embroidered border of his bathmat tended to transform into elaborate staves and clefs of music.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2013
The 3-D visuals during Franz Schubert are also uninspiring: the white smudges washing across the black screen aren't a patch on the spaceships and cascading treble clefs we get later.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2013
But the Sourcebook also includes such arbitrary signs as plus and minus in mathematics and the clefs in music.
From Time Magazine Archive
He studied at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, sang in choirs, doodled clefs & staffs on tablecloths and phone pads and dreamed of a career in music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Figure 1.8: It is rare these days to see the G and F clefs in these nonstandard positions.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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