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Gradus GE-084 · cite this code — it is permanent. Rule id clef-change-courtesy-clef-end-of-system
When the clef is about to change at the start of the NEXT system, a small courtesy clef (in the new clef, at reduced size, matching the change-clef convention above) is printed at the very end of the current system, after the last note, giving the reader advance notice before the page/line turn.
A system ending in one clef with the next system silently opening in a different clef, with no advance courtesy clef at the end of the first system to prepare the reader.
Gould, Behind Bars, Clefs chapter, states the courtesy-clef-at-end-of-system convention explicitly, alongside the equivalent and more commonly known courtesy-accidental convention. Ross, The Art of Music Engraving, agrees this is standard professional practice, particularly valuable at a system break (as opposed to mid-line, where the reader has no turn-of-page/line disruption to prepare for). Read, Music Notation, agrees.
This rule needs the notated content and the rendered result together — the score says what should happen, the page says whether it did.
Gradus GE-084 — A courtesy (small) clef at the end of a system announces the next system's new clef. Gradus Engraving Rulebook v1.0. https://gradusmusic.com/engraving/rule/clef-change-courtesy-clef-end-of-system
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