Musical Symbols (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Musical Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1D100..U+1D1FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common (211 char.) Inherited (22 char.) |
| Symbol sets | Modern musical notation |
| Assigned | 231 code points |
| Unused | 25 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 3.1 | 219 (+219) |
| 5.1 | 220 (+1) |
| 8.0 | 231 (+11) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
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 is supported by the MusicXML 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.[3]
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/97-129 | Roland, Perry (1996-12-03), Proposal for encoding Western music symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| L2/97-264 | Aliprand, Joan (1997-11-25), Comments on Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols | ||||
| N1693 | Roland, Perry (1998-02-19), Proposal for encoding Western Music symbols | ||||
| L2/98-045 | Roland, Perry (1998-02-23), Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/98-039 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 | ||||
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | ||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | |||
| L2/99-392 | Hodgson, Andrew (1999-12-24), Comments on the Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| N2280 | Suignard, Michel (2000-09-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3442 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646-2) | ||||
| L2/04-258 | Cline, Ernest (2004-04-17), Musical symbol errors | ||||
| L2/04-316 | Moore, Lisa (2004-08-19), UTC #100 Minutes | ||||
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | L2/05-258 | N2983 | Andries, Patrick (2005-09-07), Defect report and proposal to add one musical multiple rest character |
| L2/05-270 | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) | ||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | L2/11-376 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode | |
| L2/12-022 | N4206 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation | |||
| L2/12-122 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode | ||||
| L2/12-327 | N4362 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-10-04), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation | |||
| L2/12-343R2 | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), UTC #133 Minutes, "Approve 11 East-Slavic musical symbols" | ||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
| 14.0 | U+1D1E9..1D1EA | 2 | L2/20-159 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-04-23), Proposal to encode two accidentals for Iranian classical music | |
| L2/20-169 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-172 | Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), UTC #164 Minutes | ||||
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See also
- Ancient Greek Musical Notation (Unicode block)
- Byzantine Musical Symbols (Unicode block)
- Znamenny Musical Notation (Unicode block)
- List of musical symbols
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Standard Music Font Layout website". 7 February 2013. https://www.smufl.org/about/. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
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