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music-glossary: staff

 
 1.286 staff
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 UK: stave, ES: pentagrama, pauta, I: pentagramma, rigo (musicale), F:
 portée, D: Notensystem, Notenzeile, NL: (noten)balk, partij, DK:
 nodesystem, S: notsystem, FI: nuottiviivasto.
 
    A staff (plural: staves) is a series of (normally five) horizontal
 lines upon and between which the musical notes are written, thus
 indicating (in connection with a clef) their pitch.  Staves for
 percussion instruments may have fewer lines.
 
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 See also
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    system.
 

Info Catalog music-glossary: staccato music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: staves