The Emergence Machine

Staff (Music sense)

property · Music · Level 12 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

staff-music emerges from notation. It requires sound.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “staff music” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “staff music”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
staff
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL12L11L10L9L8L2L1L0Staff MusicNotationMusicalPerformanceNoteSkill… intermediate l…FormInformationLifeStructureActionChangeMatterWaveEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesClefL13Staff MusicL12NoteL8NotationL11E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Note L8 (requires)
    The five horizontal lines and four spaces on which musical notes are written and positioned.
  • Notation L11 (foundational)
    Staff is part of musical notation

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