In any other tuning system, such enharmonic equivalences in general do not exist. Under twelve-tone equal temperament, D♭ for instance is enharmonically equivalent to C♯, and G♭ is equivalent to F♯. For instance, the music below has a key signature with three flats (indicating either E♭ major or C minor) and the note, D♭, has a flat accidental. In musical notation, flat means 'lower in pitch by one semitone (half step)', notated using the symbol ♭ which is derived from a stylised lowercase 'b'. Flat is the opposite of sharp, which is a raising of pitch. In music, flat (Italian bemolle for 'soft B') means 'lower in pitch'. The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint: It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. In text U+1D133 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It belongs to the block U+1D100 to U+1D1FF Musical Symbols in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane. U+1D133 was added to Unicode in version 3.1 (2001). A three-quarter flat is represented by a half flat and a regular flat.Copy to clipboard share this codepoint embed this codepoint If the same note is played on two instruments at the same time, the lower-pitched one is flat compared to the higher-pitched one.Ī half flat, showing quarter tones, is sometimes shown with a flat with a slash ( ) or a reversed flat sign. In tuning, flat can also mean 'slightly lower in pitch'. The note A flat is shown in musical notation in Figure 1, together with A double flat. The Unicode character '𝄫' 𝄫 (U+1D12B) represents the double flat sign.Ī triple flat can be found, but it is very rare. Sometimes you will encounter half or three-quarter flats. Under twelve tone equal temperament, C flat is the same as, or enharmonically equivalent to, B natural, and G flat is the same as F sharp.ĭouble flats also exist, which look like and lower a note by two semitones, or a whole step.

The Unicode character ' ♭' (U+266D) is the flat sign. In music, flat, or Bemolle, means 'lower in pitch.' In music notation, flat means 'lower in pitch by a semitone (half step),' and has the symbol ( ♭). The note E-flat on the treble clef and bass clef

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