Examples of stave

• In the fair copy each of the six instruments has its own staff, with the staves arranged in the usual score order.

• But their characterisation of women workers helped employers stave off such legislation.

• Some detainees, determined to stave off the verbal diarrhea against which they had once fought, kept their mouths closed.

• Its import is that forgetting will be accompanied by forgiving, and all the better to stave off tragedy.

• The sketch is written on both sides of the page, using several systems of two or three staves each.

• There's an abundance of or namentation in music often on more than two staves.

• She has clear memories of classes and choir practice at weekends where she learned to interpret neumes and the five line stave.

• In the study score, the music, accurately notated, goes on one pair of staves only, requiring the reader to untangle which piano plays which notes.