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tablature
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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tab·la·ture
/ ˈtabləchər; -ˌchoŏr/
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n. chiefly hist.
a form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, written on lines corresponding to, for example, the strings of a lute or the holes on a flute.
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Read Tablature Intelligently
Magazine article from: Acoustic Guitar; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...standard notation. We guitarists love tablature; many players claim that they couldn...found that many people who only read tablature have some habits that can actually hinder...riffs and fills. Many beginners read tablature one number (tabbed note) at a time...
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World's First Free, Legal Music Tablature Network Launches at MXTabs.net.
Business Wire; 7/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...world's first free, legal tablature network, providing guitarists...in which to freely create tablature and share their knowledge...licensed, user-created tablatures (tabs), with more being...unlimited access to the tablature on the site. In addition...
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Sources manuscrites en tablature, luth et theorbe (c. 1500-c. 1800): Catalogue descriptif, vol. 1, Confoederatio Helvetica (CH), France (F).
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...manuscript lute and guitar tablatures (Handschriftlich uberlieferte...wonder about whether manuscript tablatures for guitar, vihuela, cittern...these incipits will be in tablature only, in modern transcription...eighteenth-century French tablatures described by Monique Rollin...
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Music Industry Goes After Guitar Tablature Sites
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/7/2006; ; 691 words
; ...2006 Music Industry Goes After Guitar Tablature Sites Host: RENEE MONTAGNE, STEVE INSKEEP...of quick and dirty sheet music called tablature. The sites are proliferating and attracting...On the music stand, he's got some tablature he found online for a song he wanted...
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Is tablature for losers?(learning guitar)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Guitar Player; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...music? By including such a crutch as tablature you ultimately do your readers a great...Evans' solos or Debussy's harmony in tablature? Besides, learning to read increases...you'll find for that tough passage. Tablature only shows one possible fingering, and...
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Agile Partners Launches TabToolkit - the First Guitar Tablature Player for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Business Wire; 9/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...tabtoolkit.com), a groundbreaking guitar tablature and music notation player for the iPhone...including real-time rendering of guitar tablature and music notation, let alone MIDI audio...tabs, TabToolkit automatically scrolls tablature and standard music notation while enabling...
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New at the OHS's American Organ Archives: Two Volumes of Newly Discovered German Tablatures
Magazine article from: The Tracker; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...volumes. Both are organ tablatures published in facsimile...Schubart. The four tablatures are produced in facsimile...written in German tablature, is a fragment of...have another organ tablature in the hand of a fifteen...composition." The two other tablatures in this collection
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Power chord struggle; Is putting guitar chords online stealing? Sheet music publishers say yes; free tablature sites say no. Now it's up to the courts to decide.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/29/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...to get quality guitar music scores, tablature, whatever it may be, cheaply and widely...post the chords for popular songs or tablature, a simplified type of notation for guitar...said OLGA was one of the largest guitar tablature sites, ran advertising and collected...
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Power chord struggle: Is putting guitar chords online stealing? Sheet music publishers say yes; free tablature sites say no. Now it's up to the courts to decide.
Newspaper article from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI); 10/29/2006; 700+ words
; ...to get quality guitar music scores, tablature, whatever it may be, cheaply and widely...post the chords for popular songs or tablature, a simplified type of notation for guitar...said OLGA was one of the largest guitar tablature sites, ran advertising and collected...
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Rebel Digital to Sell Advertising for MXTabs.net - the World's First Free and Legal Guitar, Drum and Bass Tablature Web Site.
PR Newswire; 5/24/2007; 700+ words
; ...free and licensed guitar, bass and drum tablature web site, MXTabs.net. Rebel Digital...advertising revenue generated through views of tablature on the web site MXTabs.net, while...access to free guitar, bass and drum tablature, while also compensating music publishers...
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tablature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tablature , in music, a generic system of musical...that will result from those actions. Tablatures have been in use in the West since the...Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Tablatures are used today to notate music for guitar...
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Tablature
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Tablature murals or ceiling paintings, collectively . Example : a tablature of splendid hues and imposing forms, 1819.
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Luis Milán
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...first of the seven vihuela tablature books published in 16th...the other Spanish vihuela tablatures, El Maestro purports to be...six horizontal lines in the tablature refers to the highest-pitched...Maestro is the only Spanish tablature that contains any Portuguese...
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musical notation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in conjunction with specially adapted pitch and rhythm notation. For a system of notation of lute and keyboard music, see tablature . See also score . Bibliography: See W. Apel, The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600 (5th ed. 1961); C. F...
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lute
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...vast literature. In the 17th cent. a larger form (the archlute) was developed; it gave rise to the theorbo and to the chitarrone, which was supplanted by the Spanish vihuela and the modern guitar . Lute music is notated in tablature .
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