Musical Symbols As Text
Most unicode fonts support the following musical symbols:
| Code | Character | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ♩ | ♩ | quarter note |
| ♪ | ♪ | eighth note |
| ♫ | ♫ | beamed eighth notes |
| ♬ | ♬ | beamed sixteenth notes |
| ♭ | ♭ | music flat sign |
| ♮ | ♮ | music natural sign |
| ♯ | ♯ | music sharp sign |
For other unicode symbols see the list of Unicode characters - Musical symbols, although many unicode fonts do not support these. There are many specialist non-unicode music fonts.
Read more about this topic: List Of Musical Symbols
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