Tablature
Tablature , noun
[Compare French tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See Table.]
1.
(Painting) 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. — Shaftesbury
2.
(Music) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ.
3.
(Anatomy) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.