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 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.

Block

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

Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 3.1 U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD 219 N1693 N1703 N2280 5.1 U+1D129 1 N2983 doc) 8.0 U+1D1DE..1D1E8 11 N4206 N4362 doc) 14.0 U+1D1E9..1D1EA 2 18.0 U+1D127..1D128, 1D1FF 3 U+1D1EB..1D1F6 12 U+1D1F7..1D1FE 8

See also Ancient Greek Musical Notation (Unicode block) Byzantine Musical Symbols (Unicode block) Musical Symbols Supplement Znamenny Musical Notation (Unicode block) List of musical symbols

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