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tablature|ˈtæblətjʊə(r)|
Also 6 tabli-, 6–9 table-, 7–9 tabulature.
[app. a. F. tablature (1553 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. tabula table; prob. in imitation of It. tavolatura ‘any kind of Prick-song’ (Florio), f. tavolare to board, plank, enclose with boards; also ‘to set in Musike or Prick-song’ (Florio): cf. late and med.L. tabulāre to plank, board over (Quicherat Addenda; also in Du Cange) and the L. derivatives tabulātus boarded, tabulātio boarding, flooring, implying the vb.]
1. Mus. An old name for musical notation in general, esp. for systems differing from the ordinary staff notation; spec. a peculiar form of notation used for the lute and other stringed instruments, in which the lines of the stave denoted the several strings, and letters or figures were placed upon them to indicate the points at which they were to be ‘stopped’ with the fingers; also, a similar notation for the flute and other wind instruments, in which the lines denoted the several holes, and dots or dashes were placed upon them to indicate those which were to be stopped. Now chiefly Hist. exc. in the study and performance of early music.
1574(title) A briefe and plaine instruction, to set all Musicke of 8 diuers Tunes in Tableture for the Lute. 1587Golding De Mornay xiv. (1617) 216 The plaine and sweet Harmonie of his [the Lute player's] Tablature, as they terme it. 1596(title) A new Booke of Tabliture..shewing howe to attain the knowledge to guide and dispose thy Hand to play on sundry Instruments... Whereunto is added, an Introduction to prickesong. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1046 The propositions described in the Tablature of musicians, which consisteth of five tetrachords. 1641Evelyn Diary Aug., One..play'd all sorts of compositions [on a chime of bells] from the tablature before him, as if he had fingered an organ. 1724Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Tabulatura, or Tablature, is the old Way of writing Musick with Letters instead of Notes. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 426 Organ Tablature was a system of writing the notes without the stave by means of letters... Figured bass has also been called Tablature. 1969Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 14/4 The procuring of music for the lute presented the greatest difficulty: it is not written in staff notation but in tablature, so Dolmetsch had to decipher this from old MSS in the British Museum. 1977Listener 15 Dec. 796/3 Tablatures..semi-diagrammatic signs that belong to a specific instrument and make no sense in the abstract. 1980Early Music Apr. 250 Our edition includes voice and tablature as well as voice and transcription.
fig.1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 121 Sound all my thoughts, and see exprest The tablature of my large brest. 1656― Ibid. 247 What means this stately tablature, The ballance of thy streins?
2. A tabular formation or structure bearing an inscription or design; a tablet. Obs. or arch.
1606Ford Honour Triumph. iii. (1843) 25 Whose shames, were they enameled in the tableture of their foreheads, it would be a hideous visour. 1641Arminian Nunnery in R. Brunne Chron. (1725) I. p. cxxxi, On the Chimney-peice..there was a Manuscript Tableture with this Inscription following [etc.]. 1786Murphy Braganza Prol., A tableture of honour. 1820Moir in Blackw. Mag. VII. 493 Behind the massy tablatures of death. 1844Ibid. LVI. 586 Ranges of headstones showed, Each on its hoary tablature,..The sculptured leer of that hyena face.
fig.1633Ford Love's Sacr. i. ii, You set before you, in the tablature Of your remembrance, the becoming griefs Of a most loyal lady. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith Introd. 15 The..same method..would obliterate them from the tablature of human knowledge.
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a. A painting; a picture; spec.: see quot. 1711.
1711Shaftesbury Charact. (1737) III. 348 In Painting we may give to any particular Work the name of Tablature, when the Work is in reality ‘a Single Piece, comprehended in one View,..which constitutes a real Whole’. 1739W. Melmoth Fitzosb. Lett. (1763) 188 Influenced in his censure or applause of the whole tablature, by the predominancy or deficiency of his favorite beauty. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. (1774) II. xxv. 487 He prefers the Saracen's head upon a sign⁓post before the best tablature of Raphael. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 86 This is the subject of the third tablature.
b. collectively. Work consisting or of the nature of paintings or pictures. ? Obs.
1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 44 Images painted on Wood or Linen pay as Tableture per 100 Weight. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 340 The roof, where storied tablature appear'd. 1819Blackw. Mag. V. 219 To dazzle us with the tablature of splendid hues and imposing forms.
c. fig. A ‘picture’ formed by description or in fancy; (pl.) the ‘pictures’ or representations of memory, or the faculty of retaining these.
1779Sheridan Critic i. ii, Yielding a tablature of benevolence and public spirit. 1779Hist. Mod. Europe II. lxx. 490 The transactions of this turbulent period I propose to comprehend in two extensive tablatures. 1860Bacon's Mor. & Hist. Wks., Wids. Anc. (Bohn) 254 How beautifully and elegantly the fable has drawn two reigning characters in human life, and given two examples, or tablatures of them, under the persons of Prometheus and Epimetheus.
4. Arch. = entablature 1. rare.
1869A. W. Ward tr. Curtius' Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 84 The columns rise to bear the tabulature of marble.
†5. Anat. The tabulate structure of the skull: cf. table n. 16. Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tablature... In Anatomy, it signifies a Division, or parting of the Scull-bones. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Tablature, in anatomy, a division or parting of the scull into two tables. |