Musical Symbol Four-line Staff
Part of Music Notation Symbols
Musical Symbol Four-line Staff has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- 𝄙
- Unicode
- U+1D119
About this symbol
The four-line staff is the staff of Gregorian chant, still used in books of plainsong today. Staff lines are credited to the monk Guido of Arezzo, who in the early eleventh century wrote of lines and spaces a third apart, so that singers could learn new chants by sight.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUSICAL SYMBOL FOUR-LINE STAFF
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Musical Symbols
- Unicode group
- Staves
- Added in
- Unicode 3.1 (2001)
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