stave

Examples

• All

• It's because if you look, he's got these three canonic lines, the three staves up above, all in the same register.

• But the music was gone, shriveled back onto its score, to flat staves and clusters of spots.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Ten swallows sit on the staves of telephone wires, waiting for the director's signal before flying to the sun.

  Fiction book (1997)

• When you get, you know, music that's notated on three staves, you know, exactly what does that mean?

• This was done first with individual music slates (chalkboards with blank staves on them).

  Academic text (1996)

• He sketches in three staves, the melody and accompaniment.

  Fiction book (1996)

• This method used single lines to represent octaves of the treble and bass clef staves.

  Academic text (2015)

• The title role offers superb opportunities for a high-lying tenor with a flexible instrument that can blend into ensembles and soar above the stave.

  Blog text (7)

• It ends partway through the top set of staves on the page with a triple final bar line and a number of very large fermatas over the used staves.

  Academic text (2000)

• The interval approach of Jaques-Dalcroze solfege is a valuable tool for teaching pitch relationships and note names on the staves in a logical progression, eliminating the need for tedious drill and mnemonic devices.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

S

staff

vsstave

• Specialized

14 5.1

Five lines and four spaces for writing musical notes

has identical meaning but is a different word form

Surface Forms

Etymology