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, like ...

At the top of every score, and the beginning of every stave, repeated on every line, is a symbol that, to seasoned musicians, becomes so familiar as to be invisible. The humble but mighty clef. Clef ...

As Múinteoir Clíona taught us, the Tonic Solfa is a way of learning and reading music. This method uses note names for a scale and these are: DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI, DO. You might have heard of a ...