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Music Glossary: brace.
Piano music is typeset in two staves connected by a
brace.
Printing such a staff is similar to the polyphonic example in
Multiple staves. However, now this entire expression is
inserted inside a PianoStaff
:
\new PianoStaff << \new Staff ... \new Staff ... >>
Here is a small example:
\relative c'' { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { \time 2/4 c4 e g g, } \new Staff { \clef bass c,, c' e c } >> }
Other staff groupings are introduced with \new GrandStaff
,
suitable for orchestral scores, and \new ChoirStaff
,
suitable for vocal scores. These staff groups each form another
type of context, one that generates the brace at the left end of
every system and also controls the extent of bar lines.
Notation Reference: Keyboard instruments, Displaying staves.
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