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
- Spiccato is usually associated with lively playing.
- And now we're going to hear what's called the spiccato bowing.
- Spiccato is usually performed at the balance portion of the bow.
- The character of the spiccato is influenced by the tilt of the bow.
- The word spiccato comes from an Italian verb which means "to separate".
- The speed with which the spiccato is performed can be changed by bow placement.
- 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. ..."