Fill in the Blanks Musical elementsOnline version Se explican los elementos básica que te permiten leer una partitura. En inglés. by Miriam Camblor Huerta 1 G clef G notes symbols lines notes staff ledger low higher change treble line bar clef Time second high signature lower Pitch is the quality of the sound that tells us the difference between sounds and sounds . To represent the pitch in a score we use three elements : the , the , and the . The staff ( plural staves ) is written as five horizontal parallel lines . Lines are counted from bottom to top . The treble clef tells us the name of the . The treble clef shape seems to curl around the of the staff . All notes written on this particular line are . That is why the treble clef is also called the . The notes are placed in the lines and in the spaces of the staff . Notes higher up the staff have a pitch . Notes lower down the staff have a pitch . In English , the names of the notes are the letters of the alphabet ( A note is " nota la " in Spanish ) . The are added to show a note that is too high or too low to be in the staff . To represent the rhythm we need the beat and the symbols . The beat doesn´t and to know how many beats a sound lasts we use . Staff is divided into small sections with the same number of pulses called . tells the performer how many beats are in a bar . ?