Way location and the order of alternation of fingers when playing a musical instrument called the fingerings (from the Latin "appliko" - "enclose, pressed").
Convenient fingering helps to quickly master the essential techniques of the game, to overcome technical difficulties to develop finger dexterity, virtuosity. Well-matched fingering allows much faster to learn the product, clearly imagine and play complex passages, makes it more accessible, it would seem. insurmountable technical difficulties. Fingerings in the score indicated in figures - how exactly your finger to play a particular sound, or signs.
Keyboard instruments were previously used only middle fingers, slipping them with the black on a white key. For plucked strings, and especially for wind instruments fingering possibilities are limited.
In notes for a stringed bowed instrument ¬ Comrade left hand fingers are indicated by numbers from I to 4 (of the index finger to little finger). For keyboards fingers represent numbers 1-5 (from thumb to little finger of each hand). Previously used other designations. General principles of fingering varied depending on the development of performance techniques and improvement of musical instruments.
Modern fingering, using all five fingers in the piano music came from Haydn. VL Mozart.L. van Beethoven. The greatest performers of the violin, and later the cello expand the natural limits applikaturnyh opportunities. New techniques for playing the cello introduced L. Boccherini. then K. Yu Davydov, P. Casals. Violin - Paganini, and later - E. Ysaye, F. Kreisler, piano - Liszt, Rubinstein, Rachmaninov. S. Prokofiev.