Byzantine Musical Symbols

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Short description: Unicode character block
Byzantine Musical Symbols
RangeU+1D000..U+1D0FF
(256 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsByzantine musical notation
Assigned246 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.1246 (+246)
Note: [1][2]

Byzantine Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Byzantine music in ekphonetic notation.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Byzantine Musical Symbols block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.1 U+1D000..1D0F5 246 X3L2/95-122 N1208 Byzantine musical notation system, 1995-03-30 
X3L2/95-090 N1253 (doc, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-09-09), Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting # 28 in Helsinki, Finland; 1995-06-26--27 
UTC/1995-054 Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes, 1995-09-29 
N1303 (html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo 
UTC/1996-013 McGowan, Rick (1996-03-08), Greek (Byzantine) Musical Notation System, Notes and observations on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1208 and attachments 
N1375 Revised Proposal - Repertoire of Greek Byzantine Musical Notation System, 1996-04-16 
N1353 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30 
L2/97-144 N1582 3rd revision for proposal of repertoire of Greek Byzantine Music Notation System, 1997-06-11 
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
L2/05-106 Nicholas, Nick (2005-05-02), Byzantine Musical Notation: Proposal for Changes 
L2/05-153 Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-12), Recommendations on how to handle the input from document L2/05-106 Proposal for Changes in Byzantine Musical Notation 
L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), UTC #103 Minutes, "Swap the glyphs for U+1D09C BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI ARGI and U+1D09F BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI GORGI." 
L2/05-341 Anderson, Deborah (2005-10-25), Summary of proposed changes from L2/05-106, Byzantine Musical Notation 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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