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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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Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include Bravura , Euterpe , FreeSerif , Musica and Symbola .
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.
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.
B ♭ (B-flat), or, in some European countries, B, is the eleventh step of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B , [ 1 ] thus being enharmonic to A ♯ , even though in some musical tunings , B ♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A ♯ .