Higher on the page, higher in pitch畫得越高,音越高
Watch a note climb the staff, one step at a time. Each step is higher in pitch.
看一個音符沿著五線譜一格一格往上爬。每一格的音都更高。
Music · Unit 2 · Lesson 5 · 音樂 單元二 第五課
Tap a line or a space on a five-line staff and hear the note, see its name, and see the same note light up on a keyboard. Then find out why a clef changes everything.
在五線譜的一條線或一個間上點一下,聽到那個音、看到它的名字,也看到它在鍵盤上的位置。再看看為什麼譜號會改變一切。
On a staff, higher on the page means higher in pitch. A clef at the start says which note a line is, and the rest follow in alphabetical order, up the lines and spaces.
在五線譜上,畫得越高,音就越高。開頭的譜號說明哪一條線是哪個音,其餘的就照著字母順序,沿著線和間往上排。
Try It · 動手試試
Tap or click any line or space, even above and below the five lines. A note appears there, you hear it, and you see its name, its solfège name, and its frequency. The keys below show the same note on a keyboard. Switch the clef, and watch what happens to the same note.
在任何一條線或一個間上點一下,甚至在五線的上方和下方。音符會出現在那裡,你會聽到它,也會看到它的音名、唱名和頻率。下面的琴鍵顯示同一個音在鍵盤上的位置。換一個譜號,看看同一個音怎麼變。
Tap a line or a space. · 點一條線或一個間。(也可以用 ↑ ↓ 鍵)
The note · 這個音
G4 · Sol
392.00 Hz
The same note on the keyboard (white keys) · 同一個音在鍵盤上(白鍵)
Reading · 英文閱讀
Writing needs letters, and music needs a way to write too. A composer who writes a tune on paper must tell a player which notes to play, and how high or low each one is. Over many centuries, people found a simple idea: put the notes on a ladder. The higher a note sits on the page, the higher its pitch.
That ladder is the staff. It is made of five horizontal lines with four spaces between them. A note can sit on a line, or in a space. We count the lines from the bottom: the first line is the lowest. In British English the staff is usually called a stave.
But which note is which line? That is the job of the clef, the symbol at the beginning. The treble clef is also called the G clef. Its curl goes around the second line, and tells you that this line is G4, the G above middle C. The bass clef is also called the F clef. Its two dots sit above and below the fourth line, and tell you that this line is F3. These shapes began as the letters G and F, and became stylized over time.
Once you know one line, you know them all. Notes go up in alphabetical order, through the letters A to G, and then start again. On the treble clef the lines, from the bottom, are E, G, B, D, F, and the spaces are F, A, C, E. Many students remember them as “Every Good Boy Does Fine” and “FACE.” On the bass clef the lines are G, B, D, F, A, and the spaces are A, C, E, G. If a note is above or below the staff, we add a short extra line, called a ledger line.
Middle C shows how clefs work together. It sits one ledger line below the treble staff, and also one ledger line above the bass staff. It is the same note, the same C4, written in two places. In Taiwan, many schools sing notes with the names Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si. The English letter names C, D, E, F, G, A, B go with them. A letter name is repeated in every octave, because notes an octave apart share a name.
The names Do, Re, Mi came from a hymn. In the eleventh century in Italy, a music teacher named Guido of Arezzo named the notes of a six-note pattern after the first syllables of the lines of a Latin hymn, “Ut queant laxis.” Later, “Ut” was replaced by the easier “Do.” Some systems keep Do fixed on C, which is called fixed do. Others move Do to the first note of any key, which is called movable do. Taiwan’s school music also uses numbers, 1 to 7, in a notation called jianpu. It writes the same notes as the staff, and both appear in the curriculum.
Questions · 閱讀理解
Why do we need a clef at the beginning of a staff?
A note sits on the first line of a treble staff. Which note is it? What about the first line of a bass staff?
Is middle C in the treble clef a different note from middle C in the bass clef?
Words & Phrases · 生字及片語
Quick Check · 小測驗
1. How many lines does a staff usually have?
2. The curl of the treble clef goes around which line, and which note is it?
3. What are the four spaces of the treble staff, from the bottom?
4. Where is middle C written in the treble clef?
5. In fixed do, which note is always called Do?
Try It in the Model · 在模型裡試試
Then try the keyboard row under the staff: tap a key, and the note appears on the staff.
然後試試五線譜下面那排琴鍵:點一個鍵,音符就出現在五線譜上。
Watch a note climb the staff, one step at a time. Each step is higher in pitch.
看一個音符沿著五線譜一格一格往上爬。每一格的音都更高。
The note on the first line is E4 with the treble clef, and G2 with the bass clef.
第一線上的音,在高音譜號是 E4,在低音譜號是 G2。
The same C4 is written under the treble staff and above the bass staff.
同一個 C4,寫在高音譜表的下面,也寫在低音譜表的上面。
Count up seven positions, lines and spaces together. You land on the same letter, an octave higher.
把線和間一起算,往上數七格。你會落在同一個字母,高一個八度。
Game · 小遊戲
Eight questions, switching between the treble clef and the bass clef. Look at where the note sits, find a line or space that you know, and count up or down from it. Choose the letter name. The game counts the questions you get right on the first try.
八道題,高音譜號和低音譜號輪流出現。看音符的位置,找一條你認得的線或間,從那裡往上或往下數,選出字母音名。遊戲會記下你第一次就答對的題數。
Question 1 of 8 · 第 1 題(共 8 題)
Right on the first try · 第一次就答對 0 / 0
Stories Behind the Staff · 五線譜背後的故事
Four short stories about how music came to be written down.
關於音樂怎麼被寫下來的四個小故事。
A Hymn · 一首讚美詩
In eleventh-century Italy, the music theorist Guido of Arezzo named the six notes of a pattern after the first syllable of each line of a Latin hymn to St. John: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. Each line of the hymn begins one step higher than the last, so singers could remember each note by its line. Later “ut” was changed to the easier “do.” Sources disagree about who changed it and when, so we only say that it happened.
十一世紀的義大利,音樂理論家圭多(Guido of Arezzo)用一首獻給聖約翰的拉丁文讚美詩,每一行的第一個音節,替一組六個音命名:ut、re、mi、fa、sol、la。這首詩每一行的開頭都比上一行高一階,歌者就可以靠那一行詩記住那個音。後來「ut」被改成比較好唱的「do」。各處資料對誰改的、什麼時候改的說法不一,所以我們只說有這回事。
A Ladder · 一座梯子
The modern use of staff lines is attributed to Guido of Arezzo, whose four-line staff is still used in chant books today. Five-line staves appeared in Italy in the 13th century. Staves with four, five, and six lines were all used as late as about 1600. The five-line staff we know became the standard only after that.
現代使用的譜線,歸功於圭多,他的四線譜到今天仍用在聖歌集裡。五線譜在十三世紀出現在義大利。一直到大約 1600 年,四線、五線、六線的譜都還有人用。我們熟悉的五線譜,是在那之後才成為標準。
Two Letters · 兩個字母
At first, a staff had a letter written at its beginning to show which line it named. Over time the shapes of these letters became stylized. The treble clef comes from G, and its curl circles the G line. The bass clef comes from F, and its two dots sit around the F line. There is also a third kind, the C clef, used for the viola and some other instruments.
一開始,五線譜的開頭是直接寫一個字母,表示那一條線的名字。隨著時間,這些字母的形狀變得圖案化。高音譜號來自 G,它的捲曲圈住 G 線;低音譜號來自 F,它的兩個點夾住 F 線。還有第三種,C 譜號,中提琴和一些其他樂器會用到。
A Row of Numbers · 一排數字
Instead of a staff, numbered notation writes the notes of a scale as the numbers 1 to 7, which stand for Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si. A dot above a number means an octave higher, and a dot below means an octave lower. Rousseau presented a similar idea to the French Academy of Sciences in 1742, and the Galin–Paris–Chevé system developed it. It came to China by way of Japan around the turn of the twentieth century.
簡譜不用五線,而是把音階的音寫成數字 1 到 7,它們代表 Do、Re、Mi、Fa、Sol、La、Si。數字上方加一點是高八度,下方加一點是低八度。盧梭在 1742 年向法國科學院提出類似的想法,後來由加林—帕里斯—謝韋(Galin–Paris–Chevé)體系發展它。它大約在十九世紀末二十世紀初,經由日本傳到中國。
In the Curriculum · 對應課綱
Reading music is named directly in the curriculum from grades 3 and 4. The curriculum mentions the staff, solfège names, and jianpu, but it does not say whether to use fixed do or movable do.
讀譜從國小三、四年級起就直接寫在課綱裡。課綱提到五線譜、唱名法和簡譜,但沒有說要用固定唱名法還是首調唱名法。
音 E-Ⅱ-3藝術領域・音樂(國小三、四年級) · Arts, music (grades 3–4)
讀譜方式,如:五線譜、唱名法、拍號等。
The staff and solfège names are both named as ways of reading music.五線譜和唱名法都被列為讀譜的方式。
音 E-Ⅲ-4藝術領域・音樂(國小五、六年級) · Arts, music (grades 5–6)
音樂符號與讀譜方式,如:音樂術語、唱名法等。記譜法,如:圖形譜、簡譜、五線譜等。
Three kinds of notation are named: graphic notation, jianpu, and the staff.三種記譜法被點名:圖形譜、簡譜、五線譜。
音 E-Ⅳ-3藝術領域・音樂(國中) · Arts, music (junior high)
音樂符號與術語、記譜法或簡易音樂軟體。
In junior high, notation and simple music software come together.國中階段,記譜法和簡易音樂軟體並列。
Myth vs. Fact · 常見迷思
✗ Myth · 迷思A position on the staff always has the same note name.五線譜上的同一個位置,永遠是同一個音名。
✓ Fact · 事實The clef decides. The first line is E4 in the treble clef, and G2 in the bass clef. Without a clef, a staff is only a set of positions.由譜號決定。第一線在高音譜號是 E4,在低音譜號是 G2。沒有譜號,五線譜只是一組位置。
✗ Myth · 迷思Middle C is a different note in the treble and bass clefs.中央 C 在高音譜號和低音譜號是不同的音。
✓ Fact · 事實It is the same note, C4. It sits on a ledger line below the treble staff, and on a ledger line above the bass staff.它是同一個音,C4。它在高音譜表下方的加線上,也在低音譜表上方的加線上。
✗ Myth · 迷思Do always means the note C.Do 永遠就是 C 這個音。
✓ Fact · 事實Only in fixed do. In movable do, Do is the first note of whatever key the music is in. The curriculum names “solfège” but does not choose between them.只有固定唱名法是這樣。首調唱名法裡,Do 是這首音樂所在調的第一個音。課綱只寫「唱名法」,沒有在兩者之間選一個。
✗ Myth · 迷思Do, Re, Mi were made up to teach children.Do、Re、Mi 是為了教小朋友才編出來的。
✓ Fact · 事實They come from the first syllables of the lines of a Latin hymn, and they were in use in the eleventh century in Italy. Teachers have used them to teach singing for about a thousand years.它們來自一首拉丁文讚美詩每一行的第一個音節,十一世紀的義大利就在用。老師用它們教唱歌,已經差不多一千年。
Remember It · 記憶口訣
The staff is a ladder for pitch.
五線譜是音高的梯子。
Every Good Boy Does Fine, and FACE.
Every Good Boy Does Fine,還有 FACE。
Lines and spaces together: seven steps up is one octave.
線和間一起算:往上七格是一個八度。
One ledger line below the treble, or above the bass.
高音譜表下方一條加線,或低音譜表上方一條加線。
Protect Your Ears · 保護耳朵
Classroom Activity 1 · 課堂活動一
You need · 準備材料
Steps · 步驟
Walk, do not run, and keep the strips taped down so nobody slips.
用走的,不要跑,帶子要貼牢,免得有人滑倒。
Classroom Activity 2 · 課堂活動二
You need · 準備材料
Steps · 步驟
Use only notes between the lowest and the highest line at first. Add a ledger line only after you can read the staff itself.
一開始只用最低線到最高線之間的音。等你會讀五線以後,再加加線。
Go Further · 延伸閱讀
Sources · 資料出處
Names, dates, and quotations on this page were checked against these sources (October 2026). The note positions are computed by the page itself and covered by automatic tests. The clef shapes on the page are our own simplified drawings. · 本頁的人名、年代與引文依下列資料查證(2026 年 10 月);音符的位置由頁面自己計算,並有自動測試。頁面上的譜號是我們自己畫的簡化圖形。