Ciconia (v 2.0)

Ciconia is a font for expressing 14th and early-15th century music notation. Ciconia is designed to work in any music notation program or to be embedded within double-spaced word processing text.

Ciconia is presented as free for academic use (including usage in papers, handouts, and dissertations). Organizations wishing to use Ciconia in books or journals should contact me at cuthbert@post.harvard.edu for permission. (I've granted permission at no charge every time so far, and will probably again, but I like to be asked...).

Instructions for using Ciconia are available here. (.pdf 40k)
Download the Ciconia Opentype font here (PC/Mac). (You might need to right click the link and choose "Save Target As...")

Ciconia was developed before SMuFL and is not SMuFL compatible. New users are advised to use a SMuFL font such as Bravura Text for submission to journals, etc. However, for personal work, handouts, PowerPoints, etc. Ciconia still gives much better results for putting with text.

ClarFinger

ClarFinger is a font for placing clarinet fingerings into scores. It also includes glyphs for half-holing keys and should have trill keys whenever I end up needing them.

ClarFinger is licensed under the same terms as Ciconia above. Individual composers may use it in their own works, but before publishing, you must tell me where it is being used. (No fee will be charged.) ClarFinger is not a finished product.

Make sure you use a large font size. 12 or 24 won't cut it. Try 48 or bigger at least

Download ClarFinger as a zipped Type 1 font. If that does not work, try this TrueType Font

Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg has converted ClarFinger to an OS X .dfont which seems to work great. Thanks! Command Click to save to disk. If that doesn't work, this Zipped version might: use StuffIt Expander to expand.

Instructions

Okay, in response to overwhelming popular demand (two emails), a little how it works:

• Press semi-colon. Now you got a blank clarinet. Everything you type after this fills the clarinet.
• press qwerty (all lowercase). Now you can cover the holes on the front.
• z and x are your two next best friends (thumb keys). cvbn will play the side keys (don't play them all at once in real life, kids).
• uiop do the right pinky keys, m,. do the left.
• [ and ] are middle A and G# respectively.
• Shift-D, Shift-F, and Shift-G are the sliver/"banana" keys (Eb-Bb, C#-G#, and B-F#). They look cooler now. A good reason to upgrade.
• The same keys one row up give empty unfingered notes. Handy if you only want to show part of the instrument.
• Shift 1 to 6 half-holes the top fingers.
• Shift-S half-holes the thumb key. That's a bad idea usually, but needed to make some really awful noises.
• What if you don't want all the blank keys? Skip the ; first step. For instance, to get a high Bb in a simpler format, just type: zxqwD3456
• No trill keys yet, sadly.

If it looks bad on screen, it usually prints out fine (or vice-versa... hmmm...). If you need great screen quality, print to a PDF and then zoom in on that image and do a screen capture.

For recorder and saxophone fingerings, Matthew Hindson has made free fonts.

Actually, if you like this page at all, go to his page. It's great.

Last modified: Feb. 4, 2006 to make the "banana" keys nicer.