10. RUDIMENTS AND THEORY OF MUSIC NAMES OF NOTES . The notes in paragraph 4—undefined as to name and pitch—at once become definite when a clef is placed before them. Treble Clef. BG. B D FFA cE . The Bass Clef may be written in two ways : =o = but whichever form is used, the two dots must be placed on either side of the fourth line so as to fix the pitch of F, from which fact this clef is known as the F clef. The sign itself was in fact originally a capital F. Bass Clef: GBDFA AC EG . There is one note which does not appear in the above system of five lines and four spaces, whether in the Treble Clef or the Bass Clef. That note is ‘Middle C,’ so called because it is the C nearest to the middle of the piano key-board. It is written on a little line below the treble staff or above the bass staff.