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lə noun
1.
Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
2.
a tabular space, surface, or structure.
Origin:
1565–75; < Middle French, Latinization (influenced by Latin tabula board) of Italian intavolatura, derivative of intavolare to put on a board, score
1565–75; < Middle French, Latinization (influenced by Latin tabula board) of Italian intavolatura, derivative of intavolare to put on a board, score
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| —n | |
| 1. | music any of a number of forms of musical notation, esp for playing the lute, consisting of letters and signs indicating rhythm and fingering |
| 2. | an engraved or painted tablet or other flat surface |
| [C16: from French, ultimately from Latin tabulātum wooden floor, from tabula a plank] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
tablature
type of musical notation for lute or stringed instrument, 1574, from Fr. tablature (1553), from L. tabula "table" (see table); infl. by It. tavolatura, from tavolare "to board, plank, enclose with boards."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
tablature tab·la·ture (tāb'lə-ch&oobreve;r', -chər)
n.
An engraved tablet or surface.
The cranial bones considered as two laminae separated by the diploe.
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tablature
system of musical notation based on a player's finger position, as opposed to notes showing rhythm and pitch. Tablatures were used for lute and keyboard music during the Renaissance and Baroque eras
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Example sentences
When he would teach you a tune, a jig or a reel or a horn pipe, it was all done in the tablature system.
There are no chords to fall back on, no sheet music or guitar tablature to buy.
Rare volumes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music tablature are also important.
You'll also learn how to read guitar tablature and chord diagrams, along with re-stringing and tuning the guitar.
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