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Notation reference
Staves
A staff is a line or group of lines on which musical notes are notated to indicate the pitch and rhythm of music. Pitched instruments use the traditional five-line staff and unpitched instruments often use a single-line staff.
Extra staves
It is sometimes necessary to add extra staves to instruments, for example, to make complex contrapuntal music easier to read because it is spread out across more staves than usual for that instrument.

Extra staves

It is sometimes necessary to add extra staves to instruments, for example, to make complex contrapuntal music easier to read because it is spread out across more staves than usual for that instrument.

In Dorico for iPad, you cannot add extra staves. However, extra staves are shown if you import or open a project that contains them.

Figure 1. An extract of Debussy's piano prelude "Feuilles mortes" with three staves

Extra staves

Video tutorial about extra staves (English)