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 ...

There are different ways of reading and writing music. In music notation, the notes tell the musician exactly how to play something. A graphic score is made up of lots of different images. The ...

Earlier this year a story ran in the UK press which revealed that it was Heather Mills who taught her daughter music, not her ex-husband, Sir Paul McCartney, because he cannot read music notation.