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

Block

Musical Symbols[1][2] (PDF)
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U+1D10x𝄀𝄁𝄂𝄃𝄄𝄅𝄆𝄇𝄈𝄉𝄊𝄋𝄌𝄍𝄎𝄏
U+1D11x𝄐𝄑𝄒𝄓𝄔𝄕𝄖𝄗𝄘𝄙𝄚𝄛𝄜𝄝𝄞𝄟
U+1D12x𝄠𝄡𝄢𝄣𝄤𝄥𝄦𝄩𝄪𝄫𝄬𝄭𝄮𝄯
U+1D13x𝄰𝄱𝄲𝄳𝄴𝄵𝄶𝄷𝄸𝄹𝄺𝄻𝄼𝄽𝄾𝄿
U+1D14x𝅀𝅁𝅂𝅃𝅄𝅅𝅆𝅇𝅈𝅉𝅊𝅋𝅌𝅍𝅎𝅏
U+1D15x𝅐𝅑𝅒𝅓𝅔𝅕𝅖𝅗𝅘NULL NOTE HEAD𝅚𝅛𝅜𝅝𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥
U+1D16x𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅰𝅘𝅥𝅱𝅘𝅧𝅨𝅩𝅥𝅲𝅥𝅦𝅪𝅫𝅬𝅮𝅯𝅭
U+1D17x𝅰𝅱𝅲BEGIN BEAMEND BEAMBEGIN TIEEND TIEBEGIN SLUREND SLURBEGIN PHR.END PHR.𝅻𝅼𝅽𝅾𝅿
U+1D18x𝆀𝆁𝆂𝆃𝆄𝆊𝆋𝆅𝆆𝆇𝆈𝆉𝆌𝆍𝆎𝆏
U+1D19x𝆐𝆑𝆒𝆓𝆔𝆕𝆖𝆗𝆘𝆙𝆚𝆛𝆜𝆝𝆞𝆟
U+1D1Ax𝆠𝆡𝆢𝆣𝆤𝆥𝆦𝆧𝆨𝆩𝆪𝆫𝆬𝆭𝆮𝆯
U+1D1Bx𝆰𝆱𝆲𝆳𝆴𝆵𝆶𝆷𝆸𝆹𝆺𝆹𝅥𝆺𝅥𝆹𝅥𝅮𝆺𝅥𝅮𝆹𝅥𝅯
U+1D1Cx𝆺𝅥𝅯𝇁𝇂𝇃𝇄𝇅𝇆𝇇𝇈𝇉𝇊𝇋𝇌𝇍𝇎𝇏
U+1D1Dx𝇐𝇑𝇒𝇓𝇔𝇕𝇖𝇗𝇘𝇙𝇚𝇛𝇜𝇝𝇞𝇟
U+1D1Ex𝇠𝇡𝇢𝇣𝇤𝇥𝇦𝇧𝇨𝇩𝇪
U+1D1Fx
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.1U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD219L2/97-129Roland, Perry (1996-12-03), Proposal for encoding Western music symbols in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/97-264Aliprand, Joan (1997-11-25), Comments on Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols
N1693Roland, Perry (1998-02-19), Proposal for encoding Western Music symbols
Roland, Perry (1998-02-23), Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646
Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.1 REVISED PROPOSAL a. Western Music", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "Western Music", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.21", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
Hodgson, Andrew (1999-12-24), Comments on the Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646
Everson, Michael (2000-06-08), Draft Irish comments to FCD 10646-2:2000 (Musical symbols chart)
Suignard, Michel (2000-09-22), "Clause 10 Western musical symbols (Two identically named sectins: One under Ireland, one under Sweden)", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3442 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646-2)
Cline, Ernest (2004-04-17), Musical symbol errors
Moore, Lisa (2004-08-19), "B.15.14", UTC #100 Minutes
5.1U+1D1291Andries, Patrick (2005-09-07), Defect report and proposal to add one musical multiple rest character
Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "H. Musical symbol", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis)
Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.10", UTC #105 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "11.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
8.0U+1D1DE..1D1E811Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode
Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2011-09-29), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation
Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode
Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2012-10-04), Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation
Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C15", UTC #133 Minutes, Approve 11 East-Slavic musical symbols
, )"M60.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
14.0U+1D1E9..1D1EA2Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-04-23), Proposal to encode two accidentals for Iranian classical music
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "27. Music Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C17", UTC #164 Minutes

See also