Neume
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A neume is the basic element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.
"Iubilate deo universa terra" shows psalm verses in unheightened cheironomic neumes.
Cistercian neumes, St. Denis/St. Evrault, North France, 12th century. (Quon)iam prevenisti eum in benedictione and Offertorium. In omnem terram exivit sonus. Variation of the letter F to the left of each line.
"Gaudeamus omnes", from the Graduale Aboense, was scripted using square notation.
Staff (music)
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In Western musical notation, the staff ;, also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of horizontal lines with spaces between them, that each represent a different musical pitch. However in
12th-century Beneventan manuscript showing diastematic neumes and a single-line staff