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 ...

For example, a G-clef on the third line yields the same note placement as a C-clef on the bottom line. Only nine different clefs have been needed throughout classical music history. Read more: Why are ...

Today, the treble clef appears printed on composers’ notepaper or preloaded on computers. It indicates notes’ pitch, because it’s placed on the second line of the musical staff, showing a G ...