Definition of tablature Tablature

/tæˈblʌʧɚ/ - [tablucher] - tab•la•ture

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Noun

Plural: tablatures

tablature - a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used

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Wiktionary

tablature (Noun)
A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
tablature (Noun)
An engraved tablet etc.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

tablature (n.)
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.
tablature (n.)
An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.
tablature (n.)
Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

tablature
tab′la-tūr, n. something tabular: a painting on a wall or ceiling: a picture in general: a method of musical notation, principally employed in the 15th and 16th centuries for the lute: (anat.) a division of the skull into two tables. [Fr.,—L. tabula, a board.]

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tablature, noun, singular of tablatures.

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