History of Tablature Notation

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Guitar Man Acoustic Guitar Tips...

This page contains a beginning level introduction to TAB notation and chord notation....
http://www.guitartips.addr.com//tip06.html

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Other important links.

Absolute Tabs...

This page contains an in-depth tutorial on reading and writing TAB....
http://www.tabs.co.za/tutorials/write_tabs_by_howard_wright.txt

Connexions...

This page contains a brief overview of the TAB system that touches upon its advantages and disadvantages as compared to staff notation....
http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11905/latest

Crossroads Guitar...

This page contains the first part of a brief but very informative seven part essay on guitar history and the history of tablature notation....
http://www.crossroads-guitar.com/learning_center/guitar-tabs-1.html

Dolmetsch Online...

This page contains a detailed account, beginning about one third the way down the page, of the Origins of Tablature Notation....
http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory30.htm

Editions Orphee...

This page contains a lengthy and scholarly history of lute tablature transcriptions from 1679 to the present....
http://www.orphee.com/trans/trans.html

Endless Productions...

This page contains a glossary of guitar playing techniques that includes examples of how those techniques are notated in TAB....
http://www.endprod.com/tab

Guitar Tablature Archive...

This page contains a brief definition of TAB notation....
http://www.mytablature.com/info/help/tab_what_is.htm

Tablature...

This page contains a brief account of the history of tablature notation and a discussion of modern TAB notation....
http://www.jaybuckey.com/tablature.htm

The Free Dictionary...

This page contains a comprehensive account of TAB notation that includes numerous sub-links to additional content....
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Guitar+tablature

The Solo Guitarist's Network...

This page contains an interesting and reasonably brief account of the history of tablature notation, and includes a half dozen examples of pre-modern tablatures....
http://sologuitarist.net/tablature.htm

Wikibooks...

This page contains a brief writing detailing the difference between TAB and ASCII tablature....
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar:Tablature

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