tablature

[ tab-luh-cher, -choo r ]
/ ˈtæb lə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər /

noun

Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
a tabular space, surface, or structure.

Origin of tablature

1565–75; < Middle French, Latinization (influenced by Latin tabula board) of Italian intavolatura, derivative of intavolare to put on a board, score

Words nearby tablature

Example sentences from the Web for tablature

  • As Walther sings Sachs takes it down in tablature, calling out to him what sections are next required.

    Richard Wagner |John F. Runciman
  • The first time he asked admittance to show you the tablature, and you did not want to receive him, I persuaded you to do so.

  • Robinson gives instructions for learning to play the cittern and for reading the tablature.

  • This set of thoughts is like the tablature prescribed to the singing animal above mentioned.

    Theodicy |G. W. Leibniz

British Dictionary definitions for tablature

tablature
/ (ˈtæblətʃə) /

noun

music any of a number of forms of musical notation, esp for playing the lute, consisting of letters and signs indicating rhythm and fingering
an engraved or painted tablet or other flat surface

Word Origin for tablature

C16: from French, ultimately from Latin tabulātum wooden floor, from tabula a plank

Medical definitions for tablature

tablature
[ tăblə-chur′, -chər ]

n.

An engraved tablet or surface.
The cranial bones considered as two laminae separated by the diploe.