Musical notation
Notations that have been or could be used for composing/performing xenharmonic music
General systems
- Sagittal notation
- Ups and Downs Notation
- Pergen notation
- Scordatura/tablature notation (various schemes)
- Tablets
- Modal systematization of soid-family scales
ETs / EDOs
- Ups and Downs Notation
- Easley Blackwood's symbols for ETs 13-24
- Chord progressions in 19edo-family scales
- 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
- Bohlen-Pierce theory for 13-EDT and other EDTs that deals with the nonatonic scale (LsLsLsLss) (adding "H" and "J" notes)
JI
- The FJS (Functional Just System), for unambiguously, intuitively and succinctly writing all of 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
- Pergen notation (ups/downs plus lifts/drops)
- 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)
- KISS Notation
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