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Tablature

Tablature Meaning & Definition
Tablature Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tablature?

[n] a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used

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Tablature In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 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 bones.

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