preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp

Hans Aberg haberg-1 at telia.com
Sun Mar 29 18:21:58 CDT 2015


> On 29 Mar 2015, at 22:02, Garth Wallace <gwalla at gmail.com> wrote:

> The most common symbol for the quarter tone flat, from what I've gathered, is a reversed flat sign. Some composers use the flat with stroke. One potential complication: AIUI the Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek system for notating Turkish music, which divides each whole tone into nine koma, uses both, along with a few altered sharps.

Some of the Turkish systems are discussed by Ozan Yarman, "A Comparative Evaluation of Pitch Notations in Turkish Makam Music”.






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