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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Modern musicians have treated 'high'-clef notation like a dead language that has to be translated into their vernacular. In the 19th century ...