These are printed in small italic font in the bottom right corner. For this, muscript has to know how many bars, and how they are spaced. Extra space is reserved automatically for the clef at the beginning of the line. In the above example, the second bar obviously needs a bit more space than the others. The available clefs are treble , alto , tenor and bass .
Clefs can occur within a bar, as well as at the beginning.
The rhythms are written in abbreviated English syntax, such as smb for semibreve, min for minim, cro for crochet, qua for quaver, smq for semiquaver and dsq for demisemiquaver. A rhythm remains valid for all notes and rests in that stave, until changed. It can be moved to the top line by rest' or further by rest'' or to the bottom line by rest, or further by rest,, A blank space on a stave is written blank . Back to the top . . . Notes Notes are described by a string with no spaces, beginning with the pitch including any accidental , followed optionally by the direction of the tail , the start or end of a beam , tie or slur , or instructions to move the note to the other side of the stem, or shift the note rightwards, or shift the accidental leftwards.