soprano (C1) and mezzosoprano (C2) C-clef.tells us which pitch 'class' that stave belongs to). Music end: barline denoting the end of a piece of musicīrace: used with a line to joining multiple staves, for example, as found in piano musicīracket: used with a perpendicular line joining multiple staves, for example, as found in piano musicĬlef: graphical symbol placed on the left of the stave which establishes the relationship between particular note names and their position on the staff lines and spaces (i.e.

Music start: barline placed at the beginning of a section of a piece of music between two solid barlines, or to show that the barline is not necessarily marking periodic agogic accents in the music (as where unbarred polyphonic music is edited with barlines, or the work employs mixed metres) containing a number of notes and/or rests whose total time value is given by the time signatureĭashed, dotted or auxiliary barline: used to mark divisions within a bar (measure), i.e. System: notation of a line of music including all the parts and voices involved, presented in a group of two or more staves which are joined together on the left hand side by a vertical bar (called a systemic barline) and a brace (the brace is not shown in this image)īarline: a vertical line (or lines) drawn across a staff (or if there are many lines, across a number of staves) to mark off measures (or bars) of a particular length, i.e. Staff, stave or pentagram: a framework of five lines on which musical notation is written such that the higher the note-sign on the staff the higher its pitch I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,vii,viii

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