Syzygi’a (Lat.)

A chord; specifically, a triad...S. compo's ita, triad with doubled tone...S. Lefts. triad... Ss. prep in’ gua, ‘chord in close harmony, ++. remo’ta, chord in open harmony. - 1S. sim'plex, the simple triad without doubled tones, T t **T** An abbr. of Talon, Tasto (t, s. tas to solo), Tempo (at. a tempo), Tendre, Tenor, Toe (in organ-music), Tre(T. C, tre corde), and 7uéti, TABLATURE, 193 Tabal’lo (It.) See 7impano. Tab/lature. 1. (Ger. Tabulatur’.) The rules and regulations for the poetry and song of the Meister singer.—2. (Ger. Tabulatur’; Fr, tablature; lt. intavolatu’ra.) An obsolete system of musical notation employed chiefly for the lute, viol, and organ, and most in vogue from the 15th century tiil early in the 18th.—The organ-tablature (also called German t.) used for keyboard instr.s was a system of alphabetical notation based on the division of the mus. scale into the octaves C—H ( B), c—h ( 4), etc; the melody (highest part) was plea nated on a staff, or accom nying chords being expre ed by verBeal ie of letters.” Tn the lute tabla tures (excepting the German) the tones were represented by letters (French or English t.) or numerals (earlier JtaHian 4) indicating the frets at which the strings were to be stopped, and were written on the lines or in the spaces of a kind of staff, said lines or spaces showing the number of strings on the instrument. The pitch of the tones represented by the letters or figures would therefore vary with the size of the lute, and was not a staff-notation in the modern sense.—Three leading features were common to nearly all systems of tablature: (1) The vertical disposition of the characters representing one chord; (2) the use of bars to divide the measures; (3) a system of signs for marking the time-value of the tones called ‘or by letters or figures (or of the-corresponding rests), these signs being written either above or below the latter, and signifying: Note Restghlascis * Brevis (4) 1” Semi brevis (o) BB Minima (,)) RB semi minima (J) RR my N N Semifusa (.R) The hooks of consecutive equal_notes were often run together thus Saad N 194 TABLE—T or H. Arbitrary variations from these general rules were, however, of frequent occurrence.—A new development of tablature is the Tonic Sol-fa system of notation,