The <notehead> element

Parent element: <note>

The <notehead> element indicates shapes other than the open and closed ovals associated with note durations.

The smufl attribute can be used to specify a particular notehead, allowing application interoperability without requiring every Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) glyph to have a MusicXML element equivalent. This attribute can be used either with the other value, or to refine a specific notehead value such as cluster.

Noteheads in the SMuFL Note name noteheads and Note name noteheads supplement ranges (U+E150–U+E1AF and U+EEE0–U+EEFF) should not use the smufl attribute or the other value, but instead use the <notehead-text> element.

Content

notehead-value

Attributes

Name Type Required? Description
color color No Indicates the color of an element.
filled yes-no No Changes the appearance of enclosed shapes from the default of hollow for half notes and longer, and filled otherwise.
font-family font-family No A comma-separated list of font names.
font-size font-size No One of the CSS sizes or a numeric point size.
font-style font-style No Normal or italic style.
font-weight font-weight No Normal or bold weight.
parentheses yes-no No If yes, the notehead is parenthesized. It is no if not specified.
smufl smufl-glyph-name No Indicates a particular Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) character using its canonical glyph name. Sometimes this is a formatting choice, and sometimes this is a refinement of the semantic meaning of an element.

Examples

This element is used in the following examples:

<artificial>, <with-bar>, Tutorial: Percussion