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 ...

From neumes to sheet music. There was a natural development between medieval neumes and sheet music as it is known today, Helsen said. But before either, people relied on their memory to recall ...

Especially rich in this regard, either in their use of significative letters, or by the graphic shapes of the neumes themselves, are the following four manuscripts: 1. Cantatorium St. Gall 359 ...