Notation
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Notations that have been or could be used for composing/performing xenharmonic music[edit]
General systems[edit]
ET[edit]
- Easley Blackwood's symbols for ETs 13-24
- Tartini/Couper for 31-EDO
- Julian Carrillo's index notation
- Armodue theory for 16-EDO and other EDOs that deals with the superdiatonic scale (LLLsLLLLs) (notation of numbers [from 1 ~ 9] and accidental symbols).
- The Pentadecaphonic System (adding the 'H' note)
- David S. Goldsmith's notation for 16-EDO
- H-System for 205-EDO
- Maneri-Sims, Richter Herf / Maedel for 72-EDO
- Wyschnegradsky color notation for 72-EDO
- Heptatonic notation
JI[edit]
- Ben Johnston's notation
- Helmholtz-Ellis notation
- Julien Jalaleddine Weiss (for Arabic, Turkish, Persian music)
- Kite's color notation (used in alt-tuner)
- Rational Comma Notation (RCN) by David Ryan. Compact notation for whole of free-JI, based on prime commas.
Regular temperaments[edit]
- Porcupine notation
- Ups and Downs Notation
- Pergen notation (ups/downs plus highs/lows)
- Extended meantone notation (diesis and kleisma up/down, for meantone systems including 5, 7, 12, 19, 24, 26, 31, 36, 38, 43, 45, 50, 55, 57, 62, 67, 69, 74, 76, 81, 86, 88, 93, 98, 100, 105, 117, 129)
All / none of the above[edit]
- Scordatura/tablature notation (various schemes)
- Tablets
Microtonal scores[edit]
See dedicated Scores page.
Microtonal fonts[edit]
- Ted Mook's font for notating Ezra Sims' 72-EDO notation et al. http://www.mindspring.com/~tmook/micro.html
- Sagittal notation by George D. Secor & Dave Keenan. http://sagittal.org
- Helmholtz Ellis JI Notation Marc Sabat and Wolfgang von Schweinitz: http://www.plainsound.de/research/notation.pdf
- Tempera font by Christian Textier - does anyone use these crazy things? http://pros.orange.fr/christian.texier/mididesi/
- Matthew Hindson offers this font with quartertones and the like. http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/index.php/free-fonts-available-for-download/
Notation program/editors for microtonal music[edit]
Please see the list on the Software page
Links[edit]
Brian McLaren post on notation
Amazon page for Gardner Read's survey of 20th-century microtonal notations