OTHER sessions of the meeting focused on sightings made with gamma-rays, the highest treble notes on the scale.
Avuncular and almost frail in his late 60's, though with astonishing mastery of complex guitar patterns, Mr. Gilberto croaked tonelessly in his bottom notes and barely whispered in his middle range but sent out little ribbons of treble notes so pure and so loaded with emotion as to set the nerve ends to tingling.
It makes a superb accompaniment to the best of the appetizers, a Mediterranean platter comprising delicious, smoky baba ghanouj; a fine specimen of tabbouleh, with ringing treble notes of tomato and mint; green, crunchy falafel; hummus that could use just a bit more zip; and tangy cucumber-yogurt sauce.
While she plays more stripped-down house beats, a live flautist and cellist provide the treble notes. .
On the surface it seems no different than a bad cover, but there's an ineffable quality particular to wanky, repetitive hammer-ons and bendy little treble notes that burns a subliminal imprint in your head which can never be removed.
For example you may have recorded someone playing a piano but in the recording you mostly pick up the treble notes.
The first set opened with Parker respectfully following Stan Tracey's skipping treble-note dances, boogieing bass-walks and holding-pattern trills with a mix of rich, long tones and bursting runs.
Playing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G from Book I of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" on an organ does indeed make the contrapuntal conversation clearer than on any piano, but not when booming pedal notes obscure the treble line.
The base nucleotides -- cytosine, adenine, guanine and thymine -- were matched with the musical notes C, A, G and E, to form the treble line on a musical staff.
From the bottom upwards, the notes go E F G A B C D E F. Learn a mnemonic to help you remember the treble clef notes on the lines.
