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Notation using fingering instead of pitches
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tablature
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tablature \Tab"la*ture\, n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See Table .] (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. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tablature (or tabulature , or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the lute , vihuela , or guitar , as well as many free reed ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of musical notation for lute or stringed instrument, 1570s, from French tablature (1550s), from Italian tavolatura (also Medieval Latin tabulatura ), from Late Latin tabulare , from Latin tabula "table, list, schedule" (see table (n.)). "It differed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments 2 An engraved tablet etc.
Usage examples of tablature.
She shook her head, and began to leaf through the pages again, but so far as she could see, the slim volume held no words for spells, and nothing resembling music, not even the flaglike medieval tablature she vaguely remembered from her graduate days.
There was also an odd tablature that looked a bit like written music, indicating that the spell was to be sung.
Cuneiform tablature indicates that the River disappeared in its entirety on two separate occasions.
But he knew someone who could help him find it, someone who could read the tablature that told how to gain entrance to the inner sanctum of the Old One.
The orchestra skipped several beats as musicians looked up from their tablature to peruse the new arrivals, and two couples missed their turn to go down the line, and so fell out of the dance.