Roland, Perry (), Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646Īliprand, Joan Winkler, Arnold (), '3.A.1 REVISED PROPOSAL a. Roland, Perry (), Proposal for encoding Western Music symbols Roland, Perry (), Proposal for encoding Western music symbols in ISO/IEC 10646Īliprand, Joan (), Comments on Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block: ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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. Fonts that support it include Bravura, Euterpe, FreeSerif, Musica and Symbola. Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation.