Musical notation
Notations that have been or could be used for composing/performing xenharmonic music
General systems
- Sagittal notation
- Scordatura/tablature notation (various schemes)
- Tablets
- Modal systematization of soid-family scales
- Global notation
ETs / EDOs
- Circle-of-fifths notation (and neutral circle-of-fifths notation)
- Ups and downs notation (and neutral ups and downs notation (with an alternative symbol set))
- Syntonic-rastmic subchroma notation
- Easley Blackwood's symbols for ETs 13-24
- Mason Green's New Common Practice Notation
- Tartini/Couper for 31edo
- Julian Carrillo's index notation
- Armodue theory for 16edo and other edos that deals with the superdiatonic scale (LLLsLLLLs) (notation of numbers [from 1 ~ 9] and accidental symbols).
- The Pentadecaphonic System[dead link] (adding the 'H' note)
- David S. Goldsmith's notation for 16edo
- H-System for 205edo
- Maneri-Sims notation, Richter Herf / Maedel for 72edo
- Wyschnegradsky color notation for 72edo
- Heptatonic notation
- Bohlen-Pierce theory for 13edt and other EDTs that deals with the nonatonic scale (LsLsLsLss) (adding "H" and "J" notes)
- Erv Wilson's Linear Notations
JI
- The Functional Just System (FJS), for unambiguously, intuitively and succinctly writing all of JI.
- Ben Johnston's notation
- The Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (HEJI)
- Julien Jalaleddine Weiss (for Arabic, Turkish, Persian music)
- Color notation (used in alt-tuner)
- Rational Comma Notation (RCN) by David Ryan. Compact notation for whole of free-JI, based on prime commas.
Mosses / regular temperaments
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[dead link]
- Tempera font by Christian Textier - does anyone use these crazy things? http://pros.orange.fr/christian.texier/mididesi/[dead link]
- Matthew Hindson offers this font with quartertones and the like. http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/index.php/free-fonts-available-for-download/
- Plainsound Music Edition fonts for the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (HEJI) - under "JI/MICROTONAL RESOURCES". https://www.plainsound.org/
Notation program/editors for microtonal music
Please see the list at page Software #Notation software