Catalog of Znamenny Chant Notation (Unicode)

3a) Complete Unicode Character List (see below)
3b) Catalog of Znamenny (Stolp) Notation
3c) Catalog of Paleoslavic (Paleoznamenny) Notation
3d) Catalog of Kazan (Put-Demestvenny) Notation
3e) Catalog of Support Characters in Unicode

Unicode Character List

This is a reference catalog of the full character range of Znamenny (neumatic) musical notation which is encoded into the Unicode Standard of the world's writing scripts. As such, it lists only primary characters, but not their inflections, variations and related support characters. For a breakdown of which neumes are used in the specific notational systems, please see the individual catalogs of Znamenny (Stolp) Chant Notation, Paleoznamenny Chant Notation, and Kazan (Put-Demestvenny) Chant Notation. Borrowings from other established writing scripts (which do not warrant a duplicated listing in Unicode) are listed in a separate catalog of Support Characters. For instructional materials on how to read the notation, please see A Primar of Znamenny Notations.

The Ponomar Project has labored to develop the Unicode system of typesetting both Church Slavonic and Znamenny Chant in a variety of software applications in all operating systems (Windows, Macs and Linux), with the goal of complete cross-platform compatibility. They have identified the historically necessary repertoire of characters needed to typeset both texts and music, and have worked closely with the Unicode Consortium to establish the placement and ordering of characters within the Unicode Standard. At the Ponomar Project website one may download and install Church Slavonic fonts as well as Music Notation fonts. (It is necessary to install the Mezenets Unicode font in order to correctly view the web pages of the Znamenny Kleros Project.) At the Ponomar site one can find documentation of these fonts and how to use them, but for your convenience I am cross-posting the documents here:

• Znamenny Font documentation
• Proposal to Encode Znamenny Notation in Unicode | Updates from March 2021
• Znamenny Priznaki documentation: ODT format | PDF format
• Unicode Code Table U1CF00: Znamenny Musical Notation, Range: 1CF00–1CFCF, The Unicode Standard, Version 15.1

Consulting the above-listed documents (and installing a keyboard driver according to the instructions), one should be able to learn how to typeset Znamenny notation with some practice. For typesetting neumatic notations without installing a specific keayboard driver, one can use the following HTML-based Neumatic Notation Editor (which is still in development and may be replaced in the near future). Ideally it would be a great improvement to have something like the Neanes Byzantine Chant Scorewriter, but with so little demand for a comparable app for Znamenny notations, it is unlikely that we will see the development of such an application.

Quick Reference Table

Base neumes / Знамена

Combining Red Marks (Pomety) / Киноварные пометы, Зарембы

Combining Black Marks / Тушевые знаки

Control Characters for Priznaki / Контрольные символы для признаков

Detailed Reference Table

Chant Systems:
S = Stolp (all eras), Pz= Paleoznamenny (only),
K = Kazan (Put-Demestvenny), (-e) = element