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Definition of Fingering
1. Noun. The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument.
Generic synonyms: Emplacement, Locating, Location, Placement, Position, Positioning
Derivative terms: Finger
2. Noun. Touching something with the fingers.
Definition of Fingering
1. n. The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
Definition of Fingering
1. Noun. (music) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument. ¹
2. Noun. (music) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument. ¹
3. Noun. The act of using the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of finger) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fingering
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingering
Literary usage of Fingering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"He did not, however, publish any system of fingering, but contented himself with
... The Italian masters undoubtedly aided the advance in fingering, ..."
2. Violin Playing as I Teach it by Leopold Auer (1921)
"Fingering \ Fingering is primarily an individual matter; the conformation of the
hand, the structure and the strength of the fingers determine whether one ..."
3. Violin Teaching and Violin Study: Rules and Hints for Teachers and Students by Eugene Gruenberg (1919)
"Fingering. Introduction. THE correct manner of fingering on the violin is based
upon certain ... Fingering in this sense is either regular .or irregular. ..."
4. Relaxation Studies in the Muscular Discriminations Required for Touch by TOBIAS. MATTHAY (1908)
"The first and main point, is, to recognise that all fingering consists of ...
Groups of fingering positions, thus formed, may be connected by lateral ..."
5. The Wind-band and Its Instruments: Their History, Construction, Acoustics by Arthur A. Clappé (1911)
"102, 103 FRENCH HORN SCALE OF Fingering FOR TWO-VALVED INSTRUMENT 105 TRUMPET
AND FRENCH HORN Fingering CHART, THE LATTER WITH HAND OR TWO OR THREE VALVES ..."
6. Musical Interpretation, Its Laws and Principles, and Their Application in by Tobias Matthay (1913)
"Fingering, excerpt from that book, published separately.1 I need also, ...
Thus, in merely jotting down the required fingering for the pupil without comment ..."
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