Let's go over to the keyboard and the staff here.

我们来看看这些键盘和。

Staff notation was a tool of church control.

是教会管理工具。

This is a sign for " staff" in ASL.

在美国手语中，这是“”意思。

And you notice the staff -- there are no notes contained in the lines.

你会注意到这种并没有包含任何注释。

So music notation becomes the sharp end of the stick of globalization.

因此，成为全球化尖端。

1,000 years ago in 1020, an Italian monk called Guido invents staff notation.

1000年前1020年，一位名叫圭多意大利修道士发明了。

Now, there are various consequences to staff notation, many of them are frankly bad.

有各种各样后果，坦率地说，其中许多是。

So, this stave of five lines has some notes on it, so they're notes.

所以，这行上有一些注释，所以它们是注释。

It tells you which note each line and space on the staff represents.

它告诉您上每一行和每一个空格代表哪个音符。

And then, once the empire expands beyond the Mediterranean basin and Cortes invades Mexico in 1519, he takes notation with him.

然后，一旦帝国扩张到地中海盆地以外，科尔特斯于1519年入侵墨西哥，他带走了。

However, the sound of the note is indicated by where it is on the staff.

然而，音符声音由它在上位置指示。

He would rise before dawn to write, composing at his desk on 12-staff paper with a pencil rather than experimentally at the piano.

他会在黎明前起床创作，坐在书桌旁用铅笔在12行纸上作曲，而是在钢琴上试弹。

Grace wants to know why the musical notes on the staff are stacked one on top of the other.

Grace 想知道为什么上音符一个接一个地叠放。

" Notes, " when written on a staff, usually consist of round circles, sometimes the circles are empty, sometimes they're blackened in.

写在上“注” ，一般都是圆圈，有时圆圈是空， 有时又是涂黑。

One of them hummed a stave, and there was an argument as to whether the air was out of " Patience" or the " Mikado" .

他们中一个人哼着， 就空气中到底是“耐心” 还是“天皇” 争论休。

Mike says, " The clef tells you which note each line and the space on the staff represents." In written music, there are lines and then there are spaces in between the lines.

迈克说，“号告诉你每行和上空格代表哪个音符。 ” 在书面音乐中， 有条，然后在条之间有空格。

The staff is what we call those five horizontal, parallel lines that we write the musical notes on or that we use to indicate which musical notes you're supposed to sing or play.

就是我们所说那条水平平行，我们在上面写音符， 或者我们用它来指示你应该唱或演奏哪个音符。