spiccato

IPA: spˈɪkˈɑtoʊ

noun

  • (music) A manner of playing a stringed instrument such that the bow is bounced off the strings after each note.

adjective

  • (music) detached; separated; with every note performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
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Examples of "spiccato" in Sentences

  • And now we're going to hear what's called the spiccato bowing.
  • The word spiccato comes from an Italian verb which means "to separate".
  • The _martellato_, a _nuance_ of _spiccato_, should be played with a firm bowing at the point.
  • His herky-jerky bow destroyed any semblance of legato, and he could not execute a proper spiccato.
  • Before the mid-1700s, the terms spiccato and staccato where used interchangably to mean notes that where separated.
  • In a very broad _spiccato_, the arm may be brought into play; but otherwise not, since it makes rapid playing impossible.
  • He dazzled on the notorious trill passage in the Scherzo of the Mendelssohn Octet, but elsewhere he landed on the low side of a few notes, and his spiccato remains too much in the string.
  • Though her bow-arm is fluent, she doesn't produce a natural, biting spiccato stroke, and she will sometimes push the vibrato on climactic notes rather than let the phrase bloom as an organic whole.
  • He readied himself and then poured his heart into playing that tune -- he worked it around, swished it a few times, tried some variations, caught the fever, and finished off with a fast spiccato variation.
  • "You actually need to shift in places from a spiccato to a d'tach-," Bodine rapidly talking a Corporate Wife of some sort across the room toward the free-lunch table piled with lobster hors d'oeuvres and capon sandwiches - "less bow, higher up you understand, soften it-then there's also about a thousand ppp-to-fff blasts, but only the one, the notorious One, going the other way. ..."

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