Johnny Farraj <johnnyfarraj at yahoo dot com> wrote: > The Arabic half-flat and half-sharp symbols do not mean exact > quartertones, but that's understood by Arabic music performers as the > exact intonation is then learned by ear. That fact does not make them > impractical to use, as they are used extensively in Arabic music > notation.
This is true for Western (European) music notation as well. Nothing about the classical written notation indicates which tuning system is to be used -- equal, just, Pythagorean, etc. -- and for many pieces the choice is left to the performer, but the notation is equally valid for all. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
