The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points| Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |
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| 3.1 | U+1D100..1D126, 1D12A..1D1DD | 219 | L2/97-129}} | title=Proposal for encoding Western music symbols in ISO/IEC 10646|date=1996-12-03|first=Perry|last=Roland}} |
| L2/97-264}} | title=Comments on Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols|date=1997-11-25|first=Joan|last=Aliprand}} |
| N1693 | title=Proposal for encoding Western Music symbols|date=1998-02-19|first=Perry|last=Roland}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98045.pdf L2/98-045]}} | title=Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646|date=1998-02-23|first=Perry|last=Roland}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98039.pdf L2/98-039]}} | title=Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997|date=1998-02-24|first1=Joan|last1=Aliprand|first2=Arnold|last2=Winkler|section=3.A.1 REVISED PROPOSAL a. Western Music}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98070.pdf L2/98-070]}} | title=Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998|first1=Joan|last1=Aliprand|first2=Arnold|last2=Winkler|section=Western Music}} |
| L2/98-286}} | N1703 | title=Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20|date=1998-07-02|first1=V. S.|last1=Umamaheswaran|first2=Mike|last2=Ksar|section=8.21}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99392-musym.pdf L2/99-392]}} | title=Comments on the Proposal for Encoding Western Music Symbols in ISO/IEC 10646|date=1999-12-24|first=Andrew|last=Hodgson}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00179-wmusic.pdf L2/00-179]}} | title=Draft Irish comments to FCD 10646-2:2000 (Musical symbols chart)|date=2000-06-08|first=Michael|last=Everson|authorlink=Michael Everson}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2280.doc N2280] | title=Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3442 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646-2)|date=2000-09-22|first=Michel|last=Suignard|section=Clause 10 Western musical symbols (Two identically named sectins: One under Ireland, one under Sweden)}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04258-music-errors.txt L2/04-258]}} | title=Musical symbol errors|date=2004-04-17|first=Ernest|last=Cline}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04316.htm L2/04-316]}} | title=UTC #100 Minutes|date=2004-08-19|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=B.15.14}} |
| 5.1 | U+1D129 | 1 | [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05258-n2983-music.pdf L2/05-258]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2983.pdf N2983] | title=Defect report and proposal to add one musical multiple rest character|date=2005-09-07|first=Patrick|last=Andries}} |
| 8.0 | U+1D1DE..1D1E8 | 11 | [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11376-kievan-2.pdf L2/11-376]}} | title=Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode|date=2011-09-29|first1=Aleksandr|last1=Andreev|first2=Yuri|last2=Shardt|first3=Nikita|last3=Simmons}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12022-kievan.pdf L2/12-022]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4206.pdf N4206] | title=Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation|date=2011-09-29|first1=Aleksandr|last1=Andreev|first2=Yuri|last2=Shardt|first3=Nikita|last3=Simmons}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12122-kievan.pdf L2/12-122]}} | title=Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode|date=2012-04-23|first1=Aleksandr|last1=Andreev|first2=Yuri|last2=Shardt|first3=Nikita|last3=Simmons}} |
| [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12327-kievan.pdf L2/12-327]}} | [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4362.pdf N4362] | title=Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation|date=2012-10-04|first1=Aleksandr|last1=Andreev|first2=Yuri|last2=Shardt|first3=Nikita|last3=Simmons}} |
1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2016-07-09}}
3. ^{{cite web| title = Standard Music Font Layout website|url= https://www.smufl.org/about/| accessdate = 2018-02-24}}
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