Abstract: A composite musical staff of at least two sets of five equally spaced lines each, the two sets of lines forming a composite treble-base clef staff being separated by one line and two spaces and the two sets of lines forming the composite bass and composite treble clef staffs being separated by two lines and three spaces and the composite cleff staff of multiple treble and bass notes having the sets of lines forming the treble notes separated from the sets of lines forming the base notes by a single line and two spaces and the sets of lines in each of the treble and bass being separated by two lines and three spaces, a distance equivalent to the minimum number of lines and spaces necessary to provide continuity of note identification on all treble clef staffs and on all bass clef staffs and between treble and bass clef staffs.