TABLATURES
Noun
tablatures
plural of tablature
Source: Wiktionary
TABLATURE
Tab"la*ture, n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation.
See Table.]
1. (Paint.) 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. (Mus.) 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.
Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces;
as, the tablature of the cranial bones.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition