Tablature
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Tablature is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches.
Example of numeric vihuela tablature from the book "Orphenica Lyra" by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). Red numerals (original) mark the vocal part.
Staff (music)
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In Western musical notation, the staff;, also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of horizontal lines with spaces between them, that each represent a different musical pitch. However, in
Tablature
…organ tablature were used in Europe: German, Spanish and Italian. To distinguish standard musical notation from tablature, the former is usually called "staff notation" or just "notation". The word tablature originates from the Latin word tabulatura. Tabula is a table or slate, in Latin. To tabulate something…
12th-century Beneventan manuscript showing diastematic neumes and a single-line staff