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Hi all, I randomly came across this article-ette, and felt it could do with a bit more fleshing out, enlarging on the various German uses of the word, mostly from German Wikipedia. I've translated some of the German terms, I'm happy to do some more. I have moved a number of existing sentences around, but I think that everything in the original stub is still here somewhere.

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In music, especially Classical music, Satz is a German word which is often rendered in English as movement, although it is also used to refer to various specific musicological terms such as section, phrase, sentence or period.

Satz is a back-formation from the German verb setzen, to set, (see wikt:Satz) thus de:Tonsatz, a musical setting, esp. in theory of harmony, an artistic aspect of composition and arrangement: the object of Satzlehre (musical syntax) and a component of Music theory.

Movement

"In Classical music, Satz designates/refers to an internally cohesive movement of a multi-part musical work such as a symphony or suite."^[1]

According to the musicologist Hugo Riemann, "Satz is any single member of a musical piece, which in and of itself displays a complete sense." (Riemann 1976: 841), cited in Nattiez p. 259.

In the score of German symphonies, for example, the movements may be simply marked 1. Satz, 2. Satz, meaning 1st movement, 2nd movement etc.

More from German Wikipedia de:Satz (Musikstück) article

Satzfolge = Sequence of movements

Die sich aus den verschiedenen Sätzen ergebende Satzfolge ist oft auf Kontrastreichtum angelegt. Beispiel für typische Satzfolgen [typical sequence of movements] sind:

barocke Solo-Suite: Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue
Sonata da chiesa: Adagio – Allegro – Largo – Allegro
Sonata da camera und Solokonzert: Allegro – Adagio oder Andante – Allegro oder Presto
klassisches Divertimento: Allegro – Menuett I,II – Adagio – Menuett I,II – Presto
klassische Sinfonie und Streichquartett: Allegro – Adagio oder Andante – Menuett (oder Scherzo) – Allegro oder Presto

Daneben existieren auch viele Varianten Variations (music) und fantasievolle Satzfolgen (descriptive music). Besonders viele Sätze hat die barocke Ouvertürensuite (u. a. von Telemann), die auch Charaktersätze verwendet (z. B. Réjouissance, Harlequinade etc.). In Spätbarock und Klassik [the late Baroque and Classical periods] gab es außerdem zweisätzige Werke (two-movement works), z. B. Sonaten von Domenico Scarlatti [ie A repeated, B repeated], Antonio Soler, Joseph Haydn [see also talk:Papa Haydn lol], oder die Quartettini und Quintettini für Streicher von Luigi Boccherini.

Weitere Bedeutungen = Other meanings

Existing {{efn}}: ^[a]

In der musikalischen Formenlehre in der Nachfolge Arnold Schönbergs bezeichnet de:Satz (musikalische Formenlehre) = Sentence (music) einen bestimmten Thementypus.
In der musikalischen de:Periode (Musik) = Period (music) gibt es den Vorder- und den Nachsatz.
Der de:Tonsatz (musical setting) beschäftigt sich mit dem Setzen der einzelnen Stimmen zueinander. Includes
Vierstimmiger Satz = four-part piece (SATB)
Fuge
Kanon

Notes

Notes

^ The German word Satz may also refer to a composition's movement or the setting of music, e.g. as monodic, heterophonic, homophonic, polyphonic [ de:Polyphonie which has a tag saying "Dieser Artikel behandelt Polyphonie als de:Satztechnik [das angewandte "Regelwerk zur Komposition eines mehrstimmigen Satzes, siehe Tonsatz, Kontrapunkt Counterpoint ]"], in der Tradition der europäischen Musik"], or set (arranged) as a fugue or a canon.}

References

^ Translation of Lede of de:Satz (Musikstück) = Movement (music): "Als Satz bezeichnet man in der klassischen Musik einen in sich geschlossenen Teil eines mehrteiligen musikalischen Werkes wie z. B. einer Suite oder einer Sinfonie."

(Satz - German for sentence, movement, set, setting)

Off-topic: I wondered how many native English speakers speak German. "In 2023, there were 8,110 A-Level entries in Spanish in the United Kingdom, compared with 7,063 entries in French, and 2,358 in German. There were a further 5,955 exam entries in other modern languages during this year." Number of A Level entries in foreign languages in the UK 2022-2023 D. Clark, Dec 5, 2023. Statista.

Sources

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Found a url for Nattiez:

Riemann (1976). Cited in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0-691-02714-5.

Works by Riemann cited in Nattiez (1990) Bibliography p. 254, don't include any edition dated 1976: Have searched for any edition of Riemann dated 1976 - There is a trans. of Harmonielehre, 1977... 

Handbuch der Harmonielehre 2nd ed., 1887 (no entry for Satz on p. 988, Sattler-Sauer)
System der musicalischen Rythmik und Metrik 1903 (unlikely, he dives straight into Rhythm)
"Klangschlussel" in Musiklexikon 1909 p. 573 (not relevant)
"Mélodie" in Dictionnaire de musique, pub. Payot 1931

See also Hugo Riemann] on imslp.

Review of Nattiez by Joshua Veltman, Union University, Tenneessee, archived 20 October 2016

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Courtsey pings: Michael Bednarek, Gerda Arendt. MinorProphet (talk) 18:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the ping. Knock yourself out. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 23:48, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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[2] The German word Satz may also refer to a composition's movement or the setting of music, e.g. as monodic, heterophonic, homophonic, polyphonic [ de:Polyphonie which has a tag saying "Dieser Artikel behandelt Polyphonie als de:Satztechnik [das angewandte "Regelwerk zur Komposition eines mehrstimmigen Satzes, siehe Tonsatz, Kontrapunkt Counterpoint ]"], in der Tradition der europäischen Musik"], or set (arranged) as a fugue or a canon.}

[1] Translation of Lede of de:Satz (Musikstück) = Movement (music): "Als Satz bezeichnet man in der klassischen Musik einen in sich geschlossenen Teil eines mehrteiligen musikalischen Werkes wie z. B. einer Suite oder einer Sinfonie."

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