RUDIMENTS AND THEORIES OF MUSIC

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ART (CCA - FINE ART) JSS1 FIRST TERM

WEEK 9

RUDIMENTS AND THEORIES OF MUSIC

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MEANING OF STAVE

A stave is a series of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which musical notes are written. On the piano, white keys are called natural keys while the black keys are called enharmonic keys.

MEANING OF CLEF

Clef is the sign or symbol used to fix position certain letter names on the stave (staff). There are two commonly used types of clef among other types of clef in music namely:

1. TREBLE OR G CLEF

2. BASS OR F CLEF

The treble clef emerges from line G while the bass clef emerges from line F. On…