- Grand staff
The Grand Staff using both bass clef on the bottom and treble clef on top allows for four octaves of notation, counting the two high leger lines for
Soprano C and two leger lines below bass clef forDeep C . Note, however, that more than two leger lines may be used.About the Grand Staff
It is known as the grand staff because the two-
clef notation allows the notation of nearly all musical notes without manyledger line s or octave shifts such as 8va. 8va basso (8vb), or 15ma. The grand staff uses a brace to show a that thetreble clef andbass clef are used together. It is for this reason that the staves can be said as being "braced together." Nearly all keyboard music is written on the grand staff, as is some choral music. When the grand staff is used in choral music, however, a bracket is normally used instead of a brace.Middle C
Middle C (on the grand staff) is named so because it appears exactly in the middle between the bass and treble clefs. Middle C is not exactly in the middle of any keyboard instrument, including the piano.Middle C is usually the splitting point between the two staves on the grand staff, and can be shared between the staves.ee also
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Musical Staff
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