Ah, I guessed wrong about what the confusing bit was.
Yeah, though not being a pianist, to me this says, "It's one connected phrase that starts on one hand and ends on the other," and the left hand is usually in the lower staff and the right hand in the upper, as hellsop said (and the 'l.H' / 'r.H.' markings are (AFAICT) Just In Case somebody doesn't find the meaning of the cross-staff run/flags clear -- a good precaution).
I recently had to look up how to write something like that in ABC notation (er, using one of the abcm2ps extensions).
There's apparently a whole buttload of piano-specific notation conventions beyond the ones I've already bumped into. (Then again, I guess a pianist would say similar things about some of the guitar notation I take for granted.) Where you're asking, "what does this mean," about half the time I'm asking, "what's the [xx instrument] idiom for writing this?" -- when I'm not asking questions like yours.
Of course, there was also the time I had to ask another musician what a quarter rest symbol meant, but
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Oh, and I'd say "upper staff and lower staff (of the piano part)" -- or possibly "bass" and "treble" (assuming the usual clef signs for piano music) or "left-hand" and "right hand" staves instead of "upper" and "lower". Or possibly "upper and lower staves of the grand staff" ... but "of the piano part" is what I'd say more often, unless somebody had already gotten confused about staves
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Re: TerminologygardenfeyFebruary 12 2011, 16:08:06 UTC
Thank you. It is difficult to look up these symbols/techniques without knowing the proper terminology. I guess I did know the term staff/staves, but late last night, it wasn't coming into my brain.
Now knowing the term cross-staff beaming, I found that my software allow for this. Yay!
Re: TerminologydglennFebruary 12 2011, 20:30:22 UTC
Yeah, I was thinking earlier, Wikipedia is great for looking this stuff up when you already know what it's called, but finding out the names in the first place is a real PITA.
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Yeah, though not being a pianist, to me this says, "It's one connected phrase that starts on one hand and ends on the other," and the left hand is usually in the lower staff and the right hand in the upper, as hellsop said (and the 'l.H' / 'r.H.' markings are (AFAICT) Just In Case somebody doesn't find the meaning of the cross-staff run/flags clear -- a good precaution).
I recently had to look up how to write something like that in ABC notation (er, using one of the abcm2ps extensions).
There's apparently a whole buttload of piano-specific notation conventions beyond the ones I've already bumped into. (Then again, I guess a pianist would say similar things about some of the guitar notation I take for granted.) Where you're asking, "what does this mean," about half the time I'm asking, "what's the [xx instrument] idiom for writing this?" -- when I'm not asking questions like yours.
Of course, there was also the time I had to ask another musician what a quarter rest symbol meant, but ( ... )
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