[smufl-discuss] Re: Fwd: Arabic notation 3/4 flat accidental missing

[Karim Ratib]

Regarding the system of Arabic accidentals, I found another reference
that uses the same system. The reference is:

'Abd al-Samī' Hashād, Medhat - مدحت عبد السميع حشاد
Maqām - مقام
Dar Merit, Cairo, Egypt - دار ميريت
(year unknown)

Here are links showing the book cover and relevant accidentals page:
https://github.com/infojunkie/music-l10n/blob/master/images/merit_0cover.jpg
https://github.com/infojunkie/music-l10n/blob/master/images/merit_accidentals.jpg



On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Karim Ratib <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks Daniel, I only have that one source atm, but I will research
> more and update the thread here.
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Daniel Spreadbury
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Karim wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on bringing Arabic and Turkish notation to a number of
>>> open source projects. I did some research on the availability of
>>> Arabic and Turkish glyphs in SMuFL, and I found them all with one
>>> exception: the Arabic 3/4 flat accidental.
>>
>> I see that the remainder of the accidentals used in this symbol are a
>> combination of Stein-Zimmermann accidentals (1/4 and 3/4 sharp) and the AEU
>> accidentals (1/4 flat).
>>
>> I'm very happy to add this 3/4 flat accidental as requested, but before I
>> create a new group to contain these six accidentals (rather than simply
>> adding the new 3/4 flat accidental to the existing 'Other accidentals'
>> range, which is a rag-bag of symbols that do not themselves form coherent
>> and self-contained systems), can you provide any references to other uses of
>> this 3/4 flat accidental, or publications that give a specific name to this
>> particular grouping of accidentals as being specifically a 24-EDO system for
>> Arabic music?
>>
>> In the meantime, I've added a GitHub issue for this request:
>>
>> https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/44
>>
>> and I expect it will be possible to include this in the upcoming SMuFL 1.2
>> release.
>>
>> Daniel
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