Music Symbol
Music Symbol
Music Symbol
The staff is the fundamental latticework of music notation, on which symbols are placed. The five staff
lines and four intervening spaces correspond to pitches of the diatonic scale; which pitch is meant by a
given line or space is defined by the clef. In British usage, the word "stave" is often used.
Crescendo
A gradual increase in volume. Can be extended under many notes to indicate that the volume steadily
increases during the passage.
Diminuendo
Also decrescendo A gradual decrease in volume. Can be extended in the same manner as crescendo.
Clef graphical symbol placed on the left of the stave which establishes the relationship between
particular note names and their position on the staff lines and spaces
A half sharp raises a note by a quarter tone = 50 cents and may be marked with various symbols