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.
I'm not sure whether it's technically correct or not, but I'd call both staves together one "line" of music, if they make a grand staff. So there might be a guitar line above a bass line, one staff each, followed by a two-staff (grand staff) piano line. All together, all the staves/lines in one continuous section before you move your eyes back to the left margin and down the page, are a "system" (even if the system only contains one staff). So you might ask, at a rehearsal, "In the second system on page two, should the third note of the second measure really be an A or an A-flat?" and folks should all (I hope) look in the same place.
For guitar music written in standard notation an tablature in parallel, I'd refer to the "upper staff" and "tab staff" of "the guitar line". Again, I'm not sure whether this is formally correct or not, but I think it would be generally understood.
In the abcm2ps docs, IIRC, the effect you're asking about is described as "cross-staff beaming" -- in the sense of crossing between staves. I'll try to remember to double-check that later.
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.
I'm not sure whether it's technically correct or not, but I'd call both staves together one "line" of music, if they make a grand staff. So there might be a guitar line above a bass line, one staff each, followed by a two-staff (grand staff) piano line. All together, all the staves/lines in one continuous section before you move your eyes back to the left margin and down the page, are a "system" (even if the system only contains one staff). So you might ask, at a rehearsal, "In the second system on page two, should the third note of the second measure really be an A or an A-flat?" and folks should all (I hope) look in the same place.
For guitar music written in standard notation an tablature in parallel, I'd refer to the "upper staff" and "tab staff" of "the guitar line". Again, I'm not sure whether this is formally correct or not, but I think it would be generally understood.
In the abcm2ps docs, IIRC, the effect you're asking about is described as "cross-staff beaming" -- in the sense of crossing between staves. I'll try to remember to double-check that later.
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Now knowing the term cross-staff beaming, I found that my software allow for this. Yay!
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