How about encoding all of music in Unicode using ZWJs and invisible pitch-modifying diacritics
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U+2669 QUARTER NOTE, U+205AE COMBINING C FLAT PITCH or whatever
I mean some code points have numeric values <http://www.unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedNumericType.txt …>, so why not pitch values? Or arbitrary sounds, come to that
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If it's not clear, the answer to this rhetorical question is "Because Unicode is for text"
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@qntm and sometimes emojis - 1 more reply
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@qntm i mean we already have pitch letters for the IPA, so why not? ˥˧˦˨˩˧˦˥˧˩˧˦Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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