Tablature

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.

II. Tablature ·noun Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.

III. Tablature ·noun 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.