Byzantine Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Byzantine music in ekphonetic notation.
| Byzantine Musical Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1D000..U+1D0FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Byzantine musical notation |
| Assigned | 246 code points |
| Unused | 10 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 3.1 (2001) | 246 (+246) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chartโโฃโWeb page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
editHistory
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Byzantine Musical Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTCย ID | L2ย ID | WG2ย ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | U+1D000..1D0F5 | 246 | X3L2/95-122 | N1208 | Byzantine musical notation system, 1995-03-30 | |
| X3L2/95-090 | N1253 (doc, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-09-09), "6.4.2", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting # 28 in Helsinki, Finland; 1995-06-26--27 | ||||
| UTC/1995-054 | "Byzantine Music", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes, 1995-09-29 | |||||
| N1303 (html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), "8.3 Byzantine music symbols", Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo | |||||
| UTC/1996-013 | McGowan, Rick (1996-03-08), Greek (Byzantine) Musical Notation System, Notes and observations on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1208 and attachments | |||||
| N1375 | Revised Proposal - Repertoire of Greek Byzantine Musical Notation System, 1996-04-16 | |||||
| N1353 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.7.1", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30 | |||||
| L2/97-144 | N1582 | 3rd revision for proposal of repertoire of Greek Byzantine Music Notation System, 1997-06-11 | ||||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "8.1 (Comments from Ireland section, Byzantine musical symbols item)", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| L2/05-106 | Nicholas, Nick (2005-05-02), Byzantine Musical Notation: Proposal for Changes | |||||
| L2/05-153 | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-12), Recommendations on how to handle the input from document L2/05-106 Proposal for Changes in Byzantine Musical Notation | |||||
| L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C16", UTC #103 Minutes, Swap the glyphs for U+1D09C BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI ARGI and U+1D09F BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI GORGI. | |||||
| L2/05-341 | Anderson, Deborah (2005-10-25), Summary of proposed changes from L2/05-106, Byzantine Musical Notation | |||||
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
Notes and manuals
edit- Nicholas, Nick. "Unicode Technical Note: Byzantine Musical Notation Version 1.1: February 2006" (PDF). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- Terzopoulos, Constantine. "Ephesiosโข Byzantine music symbol computer font set: User's Guide" (PDF). Psaltic Notes. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2015.