Keyboard instruments are usually notated with Piano staves. These
are two or more normal staves coupled with a brace. The same
notation is also used for other keyed instruments.
Organ music is normally written with two staves inside a
PianoStaff
group and third, normal staff for the pedals.
The staves in keyboard music are largely independent, but sometimes voices can cross between the two staves. This section discusses notation techniques particular to keyboard music.
Several common issues in keyboard music are covered elsewhere:
Learning Manual: Real music example, Other uses for tweaks.
Notation Reference: Grouping staves, Instrument names, Collision resolution, Writing music in parallel, Fingering instructions, List of articulations, Grid lines, Ties, Arpeggio, Tremolo repeats.
Internals Reference: PianoStaff.
Snippets: Keyboards.
Dynamics are not automatically centered, but workarounds do exist. One
option is the ‘piano centered dynamics’ template under
Piano templates; another option is to increase the
staff-padding
of dynamics as discussed in objects
Moving objects.
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