
APL Functional Symbol Down Caret Tilde: Unicode Version: 1. It is called "up bow" and it indicates the bow is to be moved from the tip to the frog. In string music, V means up bow, as stated here. The inverted V is an accent called martellato (hammering) and is an extreme version of the accent >. Generally it is placed over the note whichever way the stems face. Occasionally I have seen it Inverted over the notes with stems down and as a V under notes with stems up.

An upside-down circumflex is called a caron, or a hek. This is not the normal or most common usage in traditional notation. It has an HTML entity in the TADS Latin-2 extension to HTML: &caron and looks like this: &caron which unfortunately doesn't display in the same size/proportion as the caret. Amp What is a quick, interactive reference of thousands of HTML character entities and common Unicode characters, 8859-1 characters, quotation marks, punctuation marks, accented characters, symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters, icons, and markup-significant & internationalization characters. Generally V above a note is only seen in string music.Īlso, the string up bow tends to have thinner lines, and the martellato accent usually is smaller with one line thicker than the other. I browsed around the internet a bit and it seems that martellato is primarily or perhaps exclusively a string instrument and piano term, but not a percussion term. I think the symbol for it is a solid triangle - like a filled in V (#49 in the articulation dialog). It has an HTML entity in the TADS Latin-2 extension to HTML: &caron and looks like this: which. but with several layers, like in pianomusic, it is also placed under.Ģ002b, (owner of 2004b) MacOSX 10.3 and classic, sometimes Win98, TgTools (always the latest) QuicKeys X2, 2.0.2 GPO, Twin G4 1ghz. A caret () is a symbol that has a variety of uses in different fields, such as mathematics or computer programming. Of course, sorry, as the original post referred to percussion music and other replies to orchestral strings, i was only thinking in terms of single staff, single line.

In writing, carets are most commonly used in proofreading.

When do you use a caret The caret is a typographical symbol, not a punctuation mark, and it sees no grammatical usage in formal writing. Percussion and orchestral strings can also have 2 lines, one with stems up and one with stems down, in which case the notes with stems down would have the accent under the notes on the stem side.
