The accordion uses standard 5 line piano grand staff. The major consideration in notation is in the bass cleff.
The accordion generally has 6 rows of buttons, two rows are bass buttons (one bass and the other counterbass). The other four are chord buttons (Major, minor, seventh & diminished). When notating single bass notes taken from the bass and counterbass rows, the notes which are to be played from the counterbass row have a line beneath the note which looks like a tenuto. Chords are notated as single notes with the letter/number for Major (M), minor (m), seventh (7) and diminished (d) notated above the chord note. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises on-line catalog: members.aol.com/njrmuse In a message dated 6/10/03 8:10:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << To be slightly TAN, if I need to, how should I go about writing for the accordion? Does it use standard 5 line notation, or does it have a system of its own, similar to guitar tablature (for example)? (With apologies, I *do* have reference books, including a certain list member's invaluable orchestration tome, but they are currently in storage pending a house move!) Many thanks for any and all help you may be able to give. >> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
