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A typical five-line staff. In Western musical notation, the staff [1] [2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4] [5] [6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
Harmony is broadly understood to involve both a "vertical" dimension (frequency-space) and a "horizontal" dimension (time-space), and often overlaps with related musical concepts such as melody, timbre, and form. [2] A particular emphasis on harmony is one of the core concepts underlying the theory and practice of Western music. [3]
In 2005, country music singer Gary Allan covered the song for his 2005 album Tough All Over.His version, entitled "Best I Ever Had" was released as the album's first single and became his eighth top-10 hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with a peak at No. 7 in late 2005.
In 1908, N. Howard "Jack" Thorp published the first book of western music, titled Songs of the Cowboys. Containing only lyrics and no musical notation, the book was very popular west of the Mississippi River. Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself. [6] [7]
In 2013, "Wild Montana Skies" won a poll as the "best song about Montana" run by the Great Falls Tribune. [ 2 ] Reception was not entirely positive; the New York Daily News rated the song as the second-worst song with the word "wild" in the title, second only to " Wildfire " by Michael Martin Murphey .
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said: "Throughout Songs of the Plains, Wall relies on stories and sketches designed to conjure ghosts of the Canadian prairies he calls home. As alluring as his spooky, skeletal arrangements are -- steel guitars are used as howling accents, not solos; he occasionally gooses his band to follow a train track ...
In standard Western music notation, tones are represented graphically by symbols (notes) placed on a staff or staves, the vertical axis corresponding to pitch and the horizontal axis corresponding to time. Note head shapes, stems, flags, ties and dots are used to indicate duration.
The Hanging Tree" is a western ballad from the 1959 movie The Hanging Tree. It was scored by Max Steiner and written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston, [1] who received nominations for the Laurel Awards and the Academy Awards in 1960. The text is a short reference to the film's story. [2]