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Music renders Western music notation of various types into Wikibooks and improves cross-browser support for music symbols.

Accidentals
The template correctly renders Unicode sharps (♯), flats (♭), and natural signs (♮) in Internet Explorer which would otherwise display empty squares unless a full Unicode font is chosen in its Preferences. The choice of fonts also improves the rendering in other browsers on Microsoft Windows such as Mozilla Firefox. See the tables below to compare the results in your current browser. The template makes use of SVG to display double flat (𝄫), double sharp (𝄪), and microtonal signs since the corresponding Unicode characters are not widely supported.

The C♯ crops up very early in Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E♭.
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Notes and rests
Some browsers support  (&#x2669;) and   (&#x266a;) for quarter and eighth notes, but since the display is often ugly and does not match any of the other (non-supported) notes and rests, this template does not use these characters.

In place of the single whole note, Chopin writes  ♩ , completely changing the profile of the music.
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Clefs
Note that there is no graphical distinction between treble clef and G-clef; alto clef, tenor clef and C-clef; bass clef and F-clef. The names preserve a difference in meaning and make the caption text (for screen readers) different.

Scale degrees
Scale degrees are often represented as Arabic numerals with a hat on them and thus the root of a scale is undefined.

A descending tetrachord could be written as undefined-undefined-undefined-undefined.
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Chord symbols
vii becomes vii in B♭ minor by raising the G♭ to G♮
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