Notating Pitches

The following are examples of notation systems

Certain noteheads can only be placed on staff lines

A note at the bottom of the staff has a higher pitch than a note at the top of the staff

In recent centuries, the standard in most Western music traditions has been imaginative forms of graphic notation

In western music tradition, a note symbol indicates duratikn

Each line and space on the staff represents a different:

Noteheads are placed on either lines or spaces on the staff to represent different pitches

Successive lines and spaces from top to bottom of the staff represent successively lower pitches

The system of parallel lines and spaces used to write music is called notation.

The staff is a system of