Searching a musical quarter note symbol to insert into text

Question

I want to simple write a musical quarter note in text. I however know that there is the \textmusicalnode available. But this does not give me a quarter note.

The usage of e.g. the harmony or wasysym package which would give me \Vier or \quarternote as quarter note but produces erros in combination with the amssymb package. What should I do to solve this?

EDIT

This is what I include as packages in my preamble.

\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,bibtotoc,liststotoc,BCOR=16mm,headinclude,numbers=noendperiod]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic-verb,bibstyle=alphabetic,hyperref=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage[hang,small]{caption} % small and hanging captions
\usepackage{lmodern}    %% Type1 font for non english language
\usepackage{graphicx}   %% graphics
\usepackage{subfig}     %% to place graphics beside each other
\usepackage{listings}   %% to include code listings
\usepackage{xcolor}     %% syntax highlight in code listings
\usepackage{amsfonts}   %% number-symbols in formulas
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{xfrac}      %% slanted fractions with font fixtures
\usepackage[plainpages=false]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}   %% fancy headings and footers

\usepackage{harmony}    %% musical symbols

I get the following errors if I use the harmony package though:

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty:231
LaTeX Error: Command `\Finv' already defined. 

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty:232
LaTeX Error: Command `\Game' already defined.

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty:237
LaTeX Error: Command `\beth' already defined.

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty:238
LaTeX Error: Command `\gimel' already defined.

Latex Error: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty:239
LaTeX Error: Command `\daleth' already defined.

the following MWE works for me `\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amssymb}

\begin{document} hello world \end{document}` could you post a MWE that doesn't work for you? — cmhughes, Aug 23 '12 at 15:28
Older versions of wasysym had problems with amsmath or amssymb. Check that yours is version 2.0 — egreg, Aug 23 '12 at 15:33
may be How can I put musical clefs in the middle of text helps you. — Ignasi, Aug 23 '12 at 15:54

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 09 '17 at 16:18

The quarter note symbol from package wasysym can be used without loading the package:

\documentclass{article}

\providecommand*{\quarternote}{%
  \begingroup
    \fontencoding{U}%
    \fontfamily{wasy}%
    \selectfont
    \symbol{12}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}
  \tiny \quarternote
  \scriptsize \quarternote
  \small \quarternote
  \normalsize \quarternote
  \large \quarternote
  \Large \quarternote
  \LARGE \quarternote
  \huge \quarternote
  \Huge \quarternote
\end{document}

I would not recommend \Vier of package harmony, because it is a constructed symbol at a fixed font size.

The following file compares the the quarter note symbols from wasy and arev and removes a substitution warning from the wasy symbol if \bfseries is used (Only sizes smaller 10pt are not available as bold).

\documentclass{article}

% wasy
\newcommand*{\quarternotewasy}{%
  \begingroup
    \fontencoding{U}%
    \fontfamily{wasy}%
    \fontshape{n}%
    \ssubSeriesBXtoB
    \selectfont
    \symbol{12}%
  \endgroup
}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\ssubSeriesBXtoB}{%
  \if b\expandafter\@car\f@series{}\@nil
    \fontseries{b}%
  \fi
}
\makeatother

% arev
\newcommand*{\quarternotearev}{%
  \begingroup
    \usefont{U}{zavm}{m}{n}%
    \symbol{90}%
  \endgroup
}

\newcommand*{\test}[2]{%
  #2%
  \tiny #1%
  \scriptsize #1%
  \small #1%
  \normalsize #1%
  \large #1%
  \Large #1%
  \LARGE #1%
  \huge #1%
  \Huge #1%
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
  wasy: & \test{\quarternotewasy}{} \\
  wasy-bold: & \test{\quarternotewasy}{\bfseries} \\
  arev: & \test{\quarternotearev}{} \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Searching a musical quarter note symbol to insert into text

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