staff notation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstaffandnotation
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staff
noun
uk/stɑːf/us/stæf/
the group of people who work for ...
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notation
noun[C or U]
uk/nəʊˈteɪ.ʃən/us/noʊˈteɪ.ʃən/
a system of written symbols used especially in mathematics or to represent ...
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(Definition ofstaffandnotationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Traditionalstaffnotationis better suited to the illustration of such aspects as melody, rhythm, chords, dynamics and articulations.
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Both formal and semi-formal composing teachers often speak in a more complex notationbased language than students understand when evaluating compositions written asstaffnotation.
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Figure 7(b) is a transcription of the violin parts in figure 7(a) in the new six-linestaffnotation.
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The neume tables do not begin to appear untilstaffnotationbegan to be accepted in many regions.
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These formal composing teachers regard full literacy in traditionalstaffnotationas a prerequisite for compositional skill.
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His comparisons with manuscripts instaffnotation(not given in the book) lead to remarkable conclusions.
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Some attempted to avoid all reference tostaffnotationor technical terms, 98 others provided glossaries and alternative terminology.
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As with traditionalstaffnotation, this system allows a view of the composition from the perspective of its totality.
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A choice of methods was offered + tonic sol-fa orstaffnotation, but tonic sol-fa was advised as being the preferred approach.
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These tests could be taken in eitherstaffnotationor tonic sol-fa.
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Obviously, the traditional five-linestaffnotationis inadequate for the task of representing the complex microdivisions of pitch that computers can achieve.
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This rejection ofstaffnotationwas to prove the ultimate downfall of the system.
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Most programs that can showstaffnotationare also capable of moving a cursor (or time line) across it while it plays back.
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Hullah's system was fundamentally -awed but it usedstaffnotationfor its exercises.
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Although there is quite a lot of graphic notation, there's a good deal ofstaffnotationtoo, so users will need to be fairly able readers.
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Teachers are enjoined to purchase this software and to use it with their students 'continually consolidating and widening their knowledge and practical experience ofstaffnotation'.
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Why not use conventionalstaffnotation, a form of analysing and communicating musical ideas, in whatever idiom, that has been developed and refined over hundreds of years?
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Staffnotationwas treated as an aide-memoire, as a means of clarifying or remembering music learnt by rote.
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