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Chapter 2: Tutorial 26
To print more than one staff, each piece of music that makes up a staff is marked by adding
\new Staff before it. These Staff elements are then combined in parallel with >:
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The command \new introduces a ‘notation context.’ A notation context is an environment
in which musical events (like notes or \clef commands) are interpreted. For simple pieces,
such notation contexts are created automatically. For more complex pieces, it is best to mark
contexts explicitly.
There are several types of contexts. Score, Staff, and Voice handle melodic notation, while
Lyrics sets lyric texts and ChordNames prints chord names.
In terms of syntax, prepending \new to a music expression creates a bigger music expression.
In this way it resembles the minus sign in mathematics. The formula (4 + 5) is an expression,
so −(4 + 5) is a bigger expression.
Time signatures entered in one staff affects all other staves by default. On the other hand,
the key signature of one staff does not affect other staves. This different default behavior is
because scores with transposing instruments are more common than polyrhythmic scores.
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2.3.3 Staff groups
Music Glossary: Section “brace” in Music Glossary.
Piano music is typeset in two staves connected by a brace. Printing such a staff is similar
to the polyphonic example in Section 2.3.2 [Multiple staves], page 25. However, now this entire
expression is inserted inside a PianoStaff:
\new PianoStaff