Byzantine Musical Symbols

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 chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Byzantine Musical Symbols[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+1D00x

𝀀

𝀁

𝀂

𝀃

𝀄

𝀅

𝀆

𝀇

𝀈

𝀉

𝀊

𝀋

𝀌

𝀍

𝀎

𝀏

U+1D01x

𝀐

𝀑

𝀒

𝀓

𝀔

𝀕

𝀖

𝀗

𝀘

𝀙

𝀚

𝀛

𝀜

𝀝

𝀞

𝀟

U+1D02x

𝀠

𝀡

𝀢

𝀣

𝀤

𝀥

𝀦

𝀧

𝀨

𝀩

𝀪

𝀫

𝀬

𝀭

𝀮

𝀯

U+1D03x

𝀰

𝀱

𝀲

𝀳

𝀴

𝀵

𝀶

𝀷

𝀸

𝀹

𝀺

𝀻

𝀼

𝀽

𝀾

𝀿

U+1D04x

𝁀

𝁁

𝁂

𝁃

𝁄

𝁅

𝁆

𝁇

𝁈

𝁉

𝁊

𝁋

𝁌

𝁍

𝁎

𝁏

U+1D05x

𝁐

𝁑

𝁒

𝁓

𝁔

𝁕

𝁖

𝁗

𝁘

𝁙

𝁚

𝁛

𝁜

𝁝

𝁞

𝁟

U+1D06x

𝁠

𝁡

𝁢

𝁣

𝁤

𝁥

𝁦

𝁧

𝁨

𝁩

𝁪

𝁫

𝁬

𝁭

𝁮

𝁯

U+1D07x

𝁰

𝁱

𝁲

𝁳

𝁴

𝁵

𝁶

𝁷

𝁸

𝁹

𝁺

𝁻

𝁼

𝁽

𝁾

𝁿

U+1D08x

𝂀

𝂁

𝂂

𝂃

𝂄

𝂅

𝂆

𝂇

𝂈

𝂉

𝂊

𝂋

𝂌

𝂍

𝂎

𝂏

U+1D09x

𝂐

𝂑

𝂒

𝂓

𝂔

𝂕

𝂖

𝂗

𝂘

𝂙

𝂚

𝂛

𝂜

𝂝

𝂞

𝂟

U+1D0Ax

𝂠

𝂡

𝂢

𝂣

𝂤

𝂥

𝂦

𝂧

𝂨

𝂩

𝂪

𝂫

𝂬

𝂭

𝂮

𝂯

U+1D0Bx

𝂰

𝂱

𝂲

𝂳

𝂴

𝂵

𝂶

𝂷

𝂸

𝂹

𝂺

𝂻

𝂼

𝂽

𝂾

𝂿

U+1D0Cx

𝃀

𝃁

𝃂

𝃃

𝃄

𝃅

𝃆

𝃇

𝃈

𝃉

𝃊

𝃋

𝃌

𝃍

𝃎

𝃏

U+1D0Dx

𝃐

𝃑

𝃒

𝃓

𝃔

𝃕

𝃖

𝃗

𝃘

𝃙

𝃚

𝃛

𝃜

𝃝

𝃞

𝃟

U+1D0Ex

𝃠

𝃡

𝃢

𝃣

𝃤

𝃥

𝃦

𝃧

𝃨

𝃩

𝃪

𝃫

𝃬

𝃭

𝃮

𝃯

U+1D0Fx

𝃰

𝃱

𝃲

𝃳

𝃴

𝃵

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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 Byzantine Musical Symbols block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Byzantine music
• Musical Symbols (Unicode block)
• Ancient Greek Musical Notation (Unicode block)
• Znamenny Musical Notation (Unicode block)

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

Notes and manuals

• Nicholas, Nick. "Unicode Technical Note: Byzantine Musical Notation Version 1.1: February 2006" (PDF). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
• Terzopoulos, Constantine. "Ephesios™ 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.