Byzantine Musical Symbols is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters for representing Byzantine-era musical notation.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Byzantine Musical Symbols block:
See also
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Byzantine music
Byzantine music (Greek: Βυζαντινή μουσική) is the music of the Byzantine Empire. Originally it consisted of songs and hymns composed to Greek texts used for courtly ceremonials, during festivals, or as paraliturgical and liturgical ...
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Musical Symbols (Unicode block)
Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include ''Bravura'', ''Euterpe'', ''FreeSerif'', ''Musica'' and '' Symbola''. The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), which i ...
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Ancient Greek Musical Notation (Unicode block)
Ancient Greek Musical Notation is a Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and docu ...
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Znamenny Musical Notation (Unicode block)
Znamenny Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing characters for Znamenny musical notation from Russia.
Few fonts support this block as of 2021. Ones that do and are free for personal use include '' Symbola'' 14.0 and Slavonic' 1.00 (non-c ...
References
Notes and manuals
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Unicode blocks
Byzantine music