Noteworthy – A Short Lesson On Musical Notation ... Reading music really is not that hard if you know exactly what each musical symbol actually means. The major groups of musical symbols that you need to know in musical notation include the following: Staff: This is a small set of five lines and four spaces on which musical notes and other symbols are placed...
I don’t want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
—Shelley Winters (b. 1922)
They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)