tablature notation tautology

2002-09-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Tablature notation is used for notating music for plucked string instruments. It notates pitches not by using note heads, but by indicating on which string and fret a note must be played. Seemingly a minor matter, but troublesome, producing wrong thinking, and leading to mistakes already.

Re: tablature notation tautology

2002-09-26 Thread William R Brohinsky
Before this becomes something other than the trivial pursuit that it is, let's lay it to rest once and for all. Tablature is notation. Every dictionary and encyclopaedia I can access, physical and online agrees. Music notation on staves with noteheads, in fact, can be considered a kind of