Who many lines are there on a single, standard musical staff or stave?
Staff (music) Forlì; staves with four, five, and six lines were used as late as 1600. Staff (music) In Western musical notation, the staff (US) or stave (UK) (plural for either: staves) is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or, in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments. Appropriate music symbols, depending on the intended effect, are placed on the staff according to their corresponding pitch or function. Musical notes are placed by pitch, percussion notes are placed by instrument, and rests and other symbols are placed by convention. The
Staff (music) measures. "Staff" is more common in American English, "stave" in British English. The plural is "staves" in either case; "stave" is, in fact, a back-formation from "staves". The vertical position of the notehead on the staff indicates which note to play: higher-pitched notes are marked higher on the staff. The notehead can be placed with its center intersecting a line ("on a line") or in between the lines touching the lines above and below ("in a space"). Notes outside the range of the staff are placed on or between ledger lines—lines the width of the note they need to hold—added