音乐记谱法(一)：谱表

Musical Notation (1):Staff

在音乐发展之初，纽姆记谱法并不能清楚地显示一个音升高、降低了多少，或者哪些音是相同的音。11世纪初，记谱的纸上开始出现了一条横向的红线，表示着所有落在这条线上的音都是相同的。很快第二条线也出现了，为了和红色有所区分，这次的线是黄色的。随着音乐发展的需要，更多的水平线被加了进去，于是形成了四线谱。但是渐渐地，由于这种四线记谱法只能表现音高，不能表现音值长短，因此只是被广泛地应用于在教堂里演唱的单旋律素歌。

At first the neums did not show how much the notes rose or fell or which were the same. Then, at the beginning of the 11th century, a red line was drawn across the page indicating that all the notes which fell on this line were the same. Soon a second line appeared, this time a yellow one. Other horizontal lines were added, but gradually the system of using four was agreed upon for the chant sung in church, and this is still used for plainsong.