Spiccato

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spiccato \Spic*ca"to\, a. [It., p. p. of spicare to detach, to
     separate.] (Mus.)
     Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is
     to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spiccato
       n : bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the
           strings [syn: {spiccato bowing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiccato":
     a cappella, abbandono, accidental, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio,
     affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile,
     amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato,
     breve, brillante, cantando, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita,
     con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, crotchet, decrescendo,
     demilegato, demisemiquaver, diminuendo, dolce, dominant,
     dominant note, double whole note, eighth note, enharmonic,
     enharmonic note, execution, expression, fingering, flat, forte,
     fortissimo, glissando, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, intonation,
     lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero,
     marcando, mezzo staccato, minim, morendo, music-making,
     musical note, natural, note, parlando, patent note, performance,
     pianism, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto,
     quarter note, quaver, rallentando, rendering, rendition,
     repercussion, report, responding note, ritardando, ritenuto,
     rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, semibreve, semiquaver,
     shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, slur, sordo,
     sotto voce, staccato, stretto, sustained note, tercet,
     thirty-second note, tone, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando,
     triplet, whole note