4 ms·
The best way to do that stackable staves: see the last two lines here: http://i.imgur.com/tqZRXzt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tqZRXzt.jpg Ledger lines preserve the
by smorrow 11y ago
The best way to do that stackable staves: see the last two lines here: http://i.imgur.com/tqZRXzt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tqZRXzt.jpg
Ledger lines preserve the melodic contour but it's harder to read the notes. 8va's stay within the regular five lines you know how to read, but fragment the melodic curve. This way has the advantages of both the above and the disadvantage of neither.
(The lack of key sig in that image is a limitation of the software it was printed out from, I think; it should start in E and change around a bit afterwards. The "3"s are that software's way of printing tuplets.)
- peeters 11y agoThat's cool, I hadn't played any piece that uses the stacked staff (to my recollection anyway; it's been a good 15 years since I was actively training). It does work better for when the melody progresses into that range, true, but I think it's a "right tool for the job" situation. Often 8va's are used for when you want to raise a single note or chord one time, and that would be much more readable than a separate staff or ledger lines. It seems like it's a random access vs sequential read type thing. 8va is better if you're jumping to a far octave with no intermediate context; stacked staves would be better for when the melody incrementally takes you there. I'd love to see what the equivalents of both approaches would be in this notation.
- smorrow 11y agoA single staff can switch between different clefs, if you ever want to redfine what lines mean what notes. Then you can switch back to the normal treble clef. That double treble clef is called the super-treble clef and I've only ever seen it in the appendix of a book called the science of sound.