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Most symbols generated by this template, including double flats and sharps, notes, rests and key signatures, use images, as corresponding Unicode characters either don't exist or are not supported by all browsers.
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 ...
Note: [1] [2 This article contains uncommon Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters.
A font with the Unicode block "Miscellaneous Symbols" has them at 266D and 266F respectively. A font for a scorewriter might have them among the regular alphabet (as Finale does) or in a "Private Use Area" block; and in any case, a proprietary scorewriter might not allow the user to use the font in other programs, such as a Web browser.
Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
Half-diminished seventh chords are often symbolized as a circle with a diagonal line through it, as in B ø 7 or simply B ø. It also can be represented as a minor seventh chord with a superscript "♭ 5" (sometimes enclosed in parentheses). The terms and symbols for this chord break expectations that derive from the usual system of chord ...
Alla breve is a "simple-duple meter with a half-note pulse". [3] The note denomination that represents one beat is the minim or half-note. There are two of these per bar, so that the time signature 2 2 may be interpreted as "two minim beats per bar". Alternatively this is read as two beats per measure, where the half note gets the beat.