Musical notation
Notations that have been or could be used for composing/performing xenharmonic music
General systems
ET
- 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
- 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
- Porcupine notation
- Ups and Downs Notation
- Pergen notation (ups/downs plus highs/lows)
- Extended meantone notation (semisharp 1, semiflat 1, semisharp 2 and semiflat 2)
All / none of the above
- Scordatura/tablature notation (various schemes)
- Tablets
Microtonal scores
See dedicated Scores page.
Microtonal fonts
- 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
Please see the list on the Software page
Links
Brian McLaren post on notation
Amazon page for Gardner Read's survey of 20th-century microtonal notations