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
ETs / EDOs
- Ups and Downs Notation (and an alternative symbol set)
- Easley Blackwood's symbols for ETs 13-24
- Mason Green's New Common Practice Notation
- 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) [dead link]
- 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
- The Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (HEJI)
- 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
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
- 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/
- 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