tablature

English

Staff notation (above) and tablature (below).

Alternative forms

• tabulature

Etymology

From French, from Italian tavolatura, from Latin tabulatura, from tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæblət͡ʃɜ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

tablature (countable and uncountable, plural tablatures)

1. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
2. (countable) An engraved tablet, or a painting on a wall or ceiling, or sometimes a picture in general.
3. (anatomy) A division of the skull into two tables.

Synonyms

• (musical notation): tab

Derived terms

• organ tablature

 

Translations

form of musical notation

• Afrikaans: tabulatuur
• Czech: tabulatura f
• Esperanto: tabulaturo
• Finnish: tablatuuri, tabulatuuri (fi)
• French: tablature (fr) f
• German: Tabulatur (de) f
• Italian: intavolatura f, tablatura f, tabulatura f
• Japanese: タブ譜 (tabufu), TAB譜 (tabufu), タブラチュア (taburachua)
• Maori: tohu puoro
• Portuguese: tablatura (pt) f
• Russian: табулатура (ru) f (tabulatura)
• Spanish: tablatura f
• Swedish: tabulatur (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

tablature f (plural tablatures)

1. tablature

Further reading

• “tablature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.