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 ...
containing characters for representing modern
musical notation. Fonts that support it include ''Bravura'', ''Euterpe'', ''
FreeSerif
GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large CJK Asian character set. The p ...
'', ''Musica'' and ''
Symbola''. The Standard Music Font Layout (
SMuFL
Standard Music Font Layout, or SMuFL, is an open standard for music font mapping.
The standard was originally developed by Daniel Spreadbury of Steinberg for its scorewriter software Dorico, but is now developed and maintained by the W3C Music N ...
), which is supported by the
MusicXML
MusicXML is an XML-based file format for representing Western musical notation. The format iopen fully documented, and can be freely used under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement.
History
MusicXML was invented by Michael Good and in ...
format, expands on the Musical Symbols Unicode Block's 220 glyphs by using the Private Use Area in the Basic Multilingual Plane, permitting close to 2600 glyphs.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block:
See also
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Miscellaneous Symbols (Unicode block)
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigra ...
starting with U+2669 has, for example, the simple accidental signs.
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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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Byzantine Musical Symbols (Unicode block)
Byzantine Musical Symbols is a Unicode block 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 Byza ...
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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 ...
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List of musical symbols
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, ...
References
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Unicode blocks
Musical notation