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Unicode Technical Note #20

Byzantine Musical Notation

Version 2
Authors Nick Nicholas
Date March 1, 2006
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Summary

This note documents the practice of Byzantine Musical Notation in its various forms, as an aid for implementers using its Unicode encoding. The note contains a good deal of background information on Byzantine musical theory, some of which is not readily available in English; this helps to make sense of why the notation is the way it is. The document is a 11.4 MB PDF, and is 74 pages long.

Status

This document is a Unicode Technical Note. Sole responsibility for its contents rests with the author(s). Publication does not imply any endorsement by the Unicode Consortium. This document is not subject to the Unicode Patent Policy.

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Contents

The body of this note is contained in the file "byznotation.1.1.pdf".