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Movement of a larger work (1. Satz, first movement). In German theory also a setting or texture (vierstimmiger Satz, four-part writing) and the sentence, a phrase type (Schoenberg’s Satz).
Printed in headings (“1. Satz”, “Erster Satz”) and inside directions that refer to another movement (“Wie im ersten Satze”, as in the first movement). As a heading it names the movement that follows; it is not a performance instruction.
Also spelled: Sätze, Satze
In German, Satz is both a movement of a larger work and the musical fabric itself: strenger Satz is strict part-writing, a vierstimmiger Satz a four-part setting, and Schoenberg’s Satz the sentence, a phrase built as presentation plus continuation. When you quote an earlier movement, wie im ersten Satze tells performers to recall its tempo and character exactly.
Bruckner, Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, finale, m. 13: “Allegro, Wie im ersten Satze” — the introduction recalls the first movement’s Allegro and says so.
Satz is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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