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Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
A quarter-tone flat, half flat, or demiflat indicates the use of quarter tones; it may be marked with various symbols including a flat with a slash or a reversed flat sign (). A three-quarter-tone flat, flat and a half or sesquiflat, is represented by a demiflat and a whole flat (). The symbols -, ↓, , among others, represent comma flat or ...
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The Standard Music Font Layout , 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.
Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)#Accidentals, this template (or the terms for the accidentals) should be used in preference to the lowercase letter "b" and the number sign (#). The images used here are categorized at commons:Category:Template:Music , so if you change an image used please try to remember to update the categorization.
More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available. 19 equal temperament; 22 equal temperament; 31 equal temperament; 41 equal temperament; 53 equal temperament; Accidental (music) A♭ (musical note) B♭ (musical note) C-sharp minor; C (musical note) Chord (music ...
The most common such need is for the flat and sharp symbols; thanks to Unicode and increased bandwidth on the Internet, the lowercase letter "b" and the pound sign "#" are no longer considered acceptable substitutes. However, not everyone has the proper fonts containing these characters.