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Webster 1913 Edition
Tablature
1.
(Paint.)
A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.
Shaftesbury.
2.
(Mus.)
An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the
tablature
before him as if he had fingered an organ. Evelyn.
3.
(Anat.)
Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces;
as, the
. tablature
of the cranial bonesWebster 1828 Edition
Tablature
TAB'LATURE
,Noun.
1.
In music, the expression of sounds or notes of composition by letters of the alphabet or ciphers, or other characters not used in modern music. In a stricter sense, the manner of writing a piece for the lute, theorbo, guitar, base viol, or the like; which is done by writing on several parallel lines, (each of which represents a string of the instrument,) certain letters of the alphabet, referring to the frets on the neck of the instrument, each letter directing how some note is to be sounded.2.
In anatomy, a division or parting of the skull into two tables.Definition 2024
tablature
tablature
English
Staff notation (above) and tablature (below).
Noun
tablature (plural tablatures)
- A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments
- An engraved tablet etc.
Synonyms
- (musical notation): tab
Translations
form of musical notation
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