Timeline for staff, grand staff, staves? what does it mean?
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| Feb 11, 2020 at 19:44 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | This is helpful. I was recently wondering how to refer to systems as they fill the page, as the line "wraps" at the page edge. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 14:21 | comment | added | phoog | @AlbrechtHügli the only difference I'm familiar with between the UK and the US is that the UK prefers the back-formed singular "stave" while the US prefers the original singular "staff." (The f-to-v sound change is analogous to that in life/lives, hoof/hooves, and half/halves.) In the US, at least, we also use "system." | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 14:01 | comment | added | Albrecht Hügli | :) So we had another question: what is in music notation a "system"? Well, in German "Notensystem" means a staff of 5 lines. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 12:14 | comment | added | Richard | @Dekkadeci Yes, I've seen "system" used for single-line instruments, too. I tried to incorporate this in my definition, with "all instruments playing at a given time" also encompassing just one instrument. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 11:55 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | Perhaps bizarrely, on NinSheetMusic, a website of video game music transcriptions that I contribute to, the understanding of the word "system" is that it means a single line of measures (regardless of how many instruments it involves). Sometimes, I read comments there such as "I believe 5 systems on Page 1 is too crowded. Try 4 systems instead." | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 11:01 | comment | added | Albrecht Hügli | There seem to be some differences in the meaning of this terms between the British and the USA language. Doesn't this point concern the tag "history" I ask because there is a proposing to edit the history-tag. | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 10:58 | vote | accept | Albrecht Hügli | ||
| Feb 11, 2020 at 10:56 | history | answered | Richard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |