Looking back, it wasn't odd that my seventh and eighth grade chorus teacher wanted all students to know the lines and spaces of the treble and bass clefs.
It was odd, however, that the tests we took didn't just say, "Name the lines (or spaces) of the treble (or bass) clef in ascending (or descending) order." Instead, there would be long sections of tests that would read, for instance:
____2nd line bass clef
____4th space treble clef
____5th line treble clef
____1st space bass clef
This continued until Mr. B. had asked for every line and space of each clef.
Despite getting perfect scores on those sections of the tests, I never understood why it was necessary to make 18 questions out of what could have been just four questions.
