The German Satz as a musical term is used today in at least four senses: (1) the manner in which all voices participating in a musical piece relate and work together (a technical and structural sense, i.e. the “setting”); (2) a “movement,” that is, a distinct, coherent piece forming part of a series or cycle (e.g. of a symphony); (3) a unit of musical syntax (“motif” or “theme”) formed in the same way as a clause in speech, for example, a four-measure …