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Applikaturen

English translation: fingerings / positions

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German term or phrase:Applikaturen
English translation:fingerings / positions
Entered by: Chris Rowson (X)

18:53 Apr 24, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / Music
German term or phrase: Applikaturen
"Der Notentext selbst wird aufgrund einer genauen Überprüfung aller Quellen durch renommierte Musikwissenschaftler erstellt. Namhafte Musiker und Pädagogen steuern Fingersätze und Applikaturen bei."

"Eine Urtext-Ausgabe enthält als Ausgabe für die Spielpraxis sparsame Fingersätze und Applikaturen, die richtungsweisende Hilfestellungen an heiklen Stellen geben sollen."

Cécile thought it would mean performance indications (dynamics and stuff), while Google seems to suggest that it means fingerings, perhaps with a tendency to saxophones and such. But this is for a classical music publisher dealing mainly in keyboards, strings, flute and clarinet.

As a keyboard player, I am of course familiar with "Fingersätze" as meaning fingerings in that context.
Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 08:29
comment
Explanation:
according to my knowledge and all checks on the net, Applikatur and Fingersatz are normally used interchangeably. The only different usage I found is "Fingersatz" as "fingering" and "Applikatur" as "position" (on string instruments). But this meaning was only found in one context:

SCHOEN,M. Lehrgang für den Violin-Unterricht Op.38:XI (Nowotny). Applikaturen (4-7 Position). UE 1811. 20s. 75
http://www.svaf.se/enhorning/Viskol.htm

Since there really is no difference between the two terms and "Fingersatz" for string instruments tells you only the fingers to use and not the actual position (the player has to figure that one out him/herself, unless maybe it's a beginner's instruction book-in which case it would not be an Uretxt), I would just use Fingersatz (fingering) and basically ignore Applikatur unless the music in question is actually for string instruments.

Eine Applikatur (Fingersatz) die auch für kleinere Hände einfach zu
handhaben ist.
www.saxshop.nl/home-d.htm

Der Fingersatz (engl. fingerring) wird auch als Applikatur bezeichnet.
www.renesenn.de/the-fing.htm

Wenngleich Beethoven also mitunter die »falsche Applikatur« (d. h. einen unpassenden und damit weniger schön klingenden Fingersatz) wählte, so scheint er von seinen Violinsonaten vollkommen überzeugt gewesen zu sein
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/special/insighttext.htms?I...
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Heike Behl, Ph.D.
Ireland
Local time: 07:29
Grading comment
Thanks very much! I made "Fingersätze und Applikaturen" "fingerings and positions", although really with the idea explained by Heike that Applikatur here means fingering. I considered just making it "fingerings", but I figured it needed the phrase for the rhythm of the sentence. Which is perhaps what "Applikatur" is there for.

Note for the glossary: in a basso continuo or jazz context Applikatur might be well translated as "voicing". But that isn´t relevant to these Urtext editions.
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3 +1positions and fingerings
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3comment
Heike Behl, Ph.D.
2fingerings and soft touches
Jonathan MacKerron


  

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positions and fingerings


Explanation:
.. Die Applikaturen für Läufe und Figuren zeigen, dass in der rechten Hand der dritte Finger als "guter" Finger gilt, während in der linken Hand der zweite ...
www.klassik.com/de/magazine/magazines/ organ/artikel10.htm - 28k -

Fingersätze look like positions in this context (violin and piano)

... Lerne fünf Fingersätze und Du kannst die Durtonleiter in jeder Tonart an jeder
Stelle des Griffbretts spielen. Ich habe festgestellt, daß das funktioniert. ...
www.fingerpicker.de/majorscales.htm

.. ist erlaubt! Wenn man irgendwelche Fingersätze oder bestimmte Haltungen
lernt, dann hat das zwar durchaus einen Sinn. Es heißt ...
www.dirk-horeth.de/workshop/workshop.html - 33k

... Die Fingersätze für die rechte Hand sind über den Noten, die Fingersätze
für die linke Hand sind unter den Noten notiert. Die ...
www.klavierunterricht-wiesbaden.de/Tonarten.htm - 73k - Cached - Similar pages

Edition Peters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto in F for Three ... - [ Translate this page ]
... 1. Fingersätze: Ziel war, so sparsam wie möglich zu bezeichnen, Fingersätze anzubieten, die vielleicht auf den ersten Blick ungewöhnlich anmuten, die aber ...
www.edition-peters.com/urtext/ mozart/lodron/nachwort.html - 9k

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agree  Claudia Tomaschek
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fingerings and soft touches


Explanation:
Muret-Sanders gives "fingering" for "Applikaturen", so I've taken the liberty to let my fantasy run free..

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43
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comment


Explanation:
according to my knowledge and all checks on the net, Applikatur and Fingersatz are normally used interchangeably. The only different usage I found is "Fingersatz" as "fingering" and "Applikatur" as "position" (on string instruments). But this meaning was only found in one context:

SCHOEN,M. Lehrgang für den Violin-Unterricht Op.38:XI (Nowotny). Applikaturen (4-7 Position). UE 1811. 20s. 75
http://www.svaf.se/enhorning/Viskol.htm

Since there really is no difference between the two terms and "Fingersatz" for string instruments tells you only the fingers to use and not the actual position (the player has to figure that one out him/herself, unless maybe it's a beginner's instruction book-in which case it would not be an Uretxt), I would just use Fingersatz (fingering) and basically ignore Applikatur unless the music in question is actually for string instruments.

Eine Applikatur (Fingersatz) die auch für kleinere Hände einfach zu
handhaben ist.
www.saxshop.nl/home-d.htm

Der Fingersatz (engl. fingerring) wird auch als Applikatur bezeichnet.
www.renesenn.de/the-fing.htm

Wenngleich Beethoven also mitunter die »falsche Applikatur« (d. h. einen unpassenden und damit weniger schön klingenden Fingersatz) wählte, so scheint er von seinen Violinsonaten vollkommen überzeugt gewesen zu sein
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/special/insighttext.htms?I...

Heike Behl, Ph.D.
Ireland
Local time: 07:29
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks very much! I made "Fingersätze und Applikaturen" "fingerings and positions", although really with the idea explained by Heike that Applikatur here means fingering. I considered just making it "fingerings", but I figured it needed the phrase for the rhythm of the sentence. Which is perhaps what "Applikatur" is there for.

Note for the glossary: in a basso continuo or jazz context Applikatur might be well translated as "voicing". But that isn´t relevant to these Urtext editions.
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