Musical Symbols block
E453708
The Musical Symbols block is a range of Unicode characters dedicated to representing modern musical notation, including notes, clefs, rests, and other standard score symbols.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Musical Symbols | 0 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| blockName | Musical Symbols ⓘ |
| categoryCoverage | modern Western staff notation ⓘ |
| contains |
accidental symbols
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dynamic marking symbols ⓘ key signature symbols ⓘ metronome and tempo symbols ⓘ miscellaneous modern music notation symbols ⓘ musical clef symbols ⓘ musical note symbols ⓘ musical rest symbols ⓘ notehead symbols ⓘ ornament symbols ⓘ repeat and ending symbols ⓘ staff and barline symbols ⓘ time signature symbols ⓘ |
| definedBy | The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encodingModel | character-based encoding of graphical music symbols ⓘ |
| excludes |
ancient musical notation
ⓘ
neume notation ⓘ |
| hasCodePointCount | 256 ⓘ |
| hasRepresentativeCharacter |
U+1D106 MUSICAL SYMBOL F CLEF OTTAVA BASSA
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U+1D107 MUSICAL SYMBOL F CLEF OTTAVA ALTA ⓘ U+1D10B MUSICAL SYMBOL TREBLE CLEF-8VA ⓘ U+1D10C MUSICAL SYMBOL TREBLE CLEF-15MA ⓘ U+1D11E MUSICAL SYMBOL G CLEF ⓘ U+1D122 MUSICAL SYMBOL F CLEF ⓘ U+1D13B MUSICAL SYMBOL SEMIBREVE ⓘ U+1D141 MUSICAL SYMBOL FERMATA ⓘ U+1D15D MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER NOTE ⓘ |
| introducedInStandard | Unicode 3.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| plane | Supplementary Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| planeCode | Plane 1 ⓘ |
| rangeType | non-BMP block ⓘ |
| relatedBlock |
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
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Miscellaneous Symbols ⓘ Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs NERFINISHED ⓘ Musical Symbols for legacy computing ⓘ |
| requiresEncodingForm |
UTF-16 surrogate pairs
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UTF-8 multi-byte sequences ⓘ |
| script | Common ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unicodeRangeEnd | U+1D1FF ⓘ |
| unicodeRangeStart | U+1D100 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
digital representation of music scores
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encoding modern Western musical notation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
music engraving software
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music notation interchange formats ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.