[advanced instrumentalist, with rudimentary keyboard skills]

Participant plays top 2 voices of Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli after about 45 minutes of training in German tablature from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[advanced instrumentalist, with rudimentary keyboard skills]

Participant plays the soprano voice of Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[professional Early Music instrumentalist, with advanced keyboard skills]

Participant attempts Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli after about 45 minutes of training in German tablature from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[professional organist and pianist]

Participant and I discuss about tablature as performance notation.

[professional harpsichordist]

Participant performs Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli after about 45 minutes of training in German tablature from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[professional harpsichordist]

Participant successfully plays Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. and Num.3 Secundus Tonus. by Andrea Gabrieli after 30 minutes of exercises (German tablature).

[amateur instrumentalist, with beginner keyboard skills]

Participant plays separate hands and both hands in 2-voice “Ave Maris Stella” and 4-part chord exercises and Fabordon from Obras de musica (Spanish tablature).

[non-musician, with very little music knowledge]

Introduction to the keyboard and the Spanish tablature system.

Participant plays 5-note scale exercises in Spanish tablature.

[non-musician, without prior music knowledge]

Participant plays a melodic fragment from

Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch (German tablature).

                Appendix A

Tablature Experiment Results

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[non-musician, without prior music knowledge]

Participant plays the 1st 2 lines of “Ave Maris Stella” by Antonio de Cabezón both hands at the end of the 50-minute session (Spanish tablature).

[advanced instrumentalist, with rudimentary keyboard skills]

Explanation of the German tablature according to the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch

Participant plays 2-octave scale and chord exercises.

[professional Early Music singer, with rudimentary keyboard skills]

Participant plays 2-voice “Ave Maris Stella” and “Duo” by Antonio de Cabezón from Obras de Musica (Spanish tablature).

[professional Early Music instrumentalist, with intermediate keyboard skills]

Participant trains in German tablature for about 45 minutes and performs the 4-voice Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[professional pianist]

Participant plays all 4 voices of Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. by Andrea Gabrieli after about 45 minutes of training in German tablature from the Bernhard Schmid II Tabulaturbuch.

[professional Early Music singer, with rudimentary keyboard skills]

Participant sight-reads  2-voice “Ave Maris Stella” by Antonio de Cabezón from Obras de Musica (Spanish tablature) on the organ.

[professional organist and pianist]

Participant successfully plays Num. 2 Primus Tonus transpositus per quartam superiorem. and Num.3 Secundus Tonus. by Andrea Gabrieli after 30 minutes of exercises (German tablature).

[professional harpsichordist]

Participant plays 2-voice “Ave Maris Stella” and 4-part Fabordon by Cabezón from Obras de musica (Spanish tablature).

[non-musician, without prior music knowledge]

Participant plays 5-note scale exercises in German tablature.