Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 : WordNet®

tablature
     n : a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used