In “Moonlight Sonata,” Padel, in an imaginative leap, describes that famous piano work as music of loss — not just of love, but of hearing: “Bass clef/High treble only once/and in despair.” ...

Beethoven Google Doodle: ... The top line is for the treble clef - or key - for high notes, and the bottom one is the bass clef for low notes. Unfilled notes mean that note is longer.

Some of the treble clef’s evolution can be seen in the timeline below, ... Beethoven was very, very messy: The first autograph page of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32.

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I ...