Tablature

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tablature \Tab"la*ture\, n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of
     musical notation. See {Table}.]
     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.
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     2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by
        letters and other signs instead of by notes.
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              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.
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     3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening
        spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tablature
       n : a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used