For example, the treble clef puts the G above middle C on the second line. The clef identifies a particular line as a specific note, and all other notes are determined relative to that line. Which staff positions represent which notes is determined by a clef placed at the beginning of the staff. Notes outside the range of the staff are placed on or between ledger lines-lines the width of the note they need to hold-added above or below the staff. The notehead can be placed with its center intersecting a line ( on a line) or in between the lines touching the lines above and below ( in a space). The vertical position of the notehead on the staff indicates which note to play: higher-pitched notes are marked higher on the staff. ( Stave is, in fact, a back-formation from staves.) In addition to the pronunciations expected from the spellings, both plural forms are also pronounced / s t æ v z/ in American English. The plural of staff is staffs or staves in both American and British English. Staff is more common than stave in both American English and British English. Unlike a graph, however, the number of semitones represented by a vertical step from a line to an adjacent space depends on the key, and the exact timing of the beginning of each note is not directly proportional to its horizontal position rather, exact timing is encoded by the musical symbol chosen for each note in addition to the tempo.Ī time signature to the right of the clef indicates the relationship between timing counts and note symbols, while bar lines group notes on the staff into measures. Pitches of notes are given by their vertical position on the staff and notes are played from left to right. The musical staff is analogous to a mathematical graph of pitch with respect to time. The lines and spaces are numbered from bottom to top the bottom line is the first line and the top line is the fifth line. For example, the treble clef, also known as the G clef, is placed on the second line (counting upward), fixing that line as the pitch first G above " middle C".
The absolute pitch of each line of a non-percussive staff is indicated by the placement of a clef symbol at the appropriate vertical position on the left-hand side of the staff (possibly modified by conventions for specific instruments). Musical notes are placed by pitch, percussion notes are placed by instrument, and rests and other symbols are placed by convention. Appropriate music symbols, depending on the intended effect, are placed on the staff according to their corresponding pitch or function. In Western musical notation, the staff (US and UK) or stave (UK) ( plural: staffs or staves) is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
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