tablature

• n. 桌状面；任何光滑坚硬可以雕刻的表面；刻有题铭，绘画，图案的平面

来自意大利语 tavolatura,符号记谱法，来自拉丁语 tabula,石板，写字板，词源同 table.

tablature (n.)

type of musical notation for lute or stringed instrument, 1570s, from French tablature (1550s), from Italian tavolatura (also Medieval Latin tabulatura), from Late Latin tabulare, from Latin tabula "table, list, schedule" (see table (n.)). "It differed from the more general staff-notation in that it aimed to express not so much the pitch of the notes intended as the mechanical process by which on the particular instrument those tones were to be produced" [Century Dictionary].