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

Johnny Farraj johnnyfarraj at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 30 16:13:48 CDT 2015


>The same problem arises in Arab music notation,

Hi Hans, 

I'm not sure what you mean by that statement? 

The Arabic half-flat and half-sharp symbols do not mean exact quartertones, but that's understood by Arabic music performers as the exact intonation is then learned by ear. That fact does not make them impractical to use, as they are used extensively in Arabic music notation. 



Johnny

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:
> 
> The same problem arises in Arab music notation,



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