At the top of every score, and the beginning of every stave, repeated on every line, is a symbol that, to seasoned musicians, becomes so familiar as to be invisible. The humble but mighty clef. Clef ...
Q: The new offices of the Roanoke Symphony (128 E. Campbell Ave.) have a special musical crosswalk. I can read music, and can tell you that the notes spell (bass clef) “B-E-A-D-E-D-B-A-G” and (treble ...
The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like ...