Staccato

3 definitions found

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

  Staccato \Stac*ca"to\ (st[.a]k*k[aum]"t[-o]), a. [It., p. p. of
     staccare, equivalent to distaccare. See {Detach}.]
     1. (Mus.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction
        to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct,
        and pointed manner. It is opposed to {legato}, and often
        indicated by heavy accents written over or under the


        notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less
        distinct and emphatic.
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     2. Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
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              Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism]. --G.
                                                    Eliot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  staccato
       adj : marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut
             short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato
             command"; "staccato notes" [syn: {disconnected}] [ant:
             {legato}]
       adv : separating the notes; in music; "play this staccato, please"
             [ant: {legato}]

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

  188 Moby Thesaurus words for "staccato":
     a cappella, abbandono, accidental, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio,
     affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile,
     amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato,
     arrhythmia, beat, beating, breve, brillante, cantando, capriccioso,
     ceaseless, ceaselessness, chattering, clicking, con affetto,
     con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, constancy, constant,
     constant flow, continual, continualness, continuity, crescendo,
     crotchet, decrescendo, demilegato, demisemiquaver, diminuendo,
     dolce, dominant, dominant note, double whole note, drumming,
     eighth note, enharmonic, enharmonic note, execution, expression,
     fingering, flat, flutter, fluttering, forte, fortissimo, glissando,
     half note, heartbeat, heartthrob, hemidemisemiquaver, incessancy,
     incessant, intonation, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo,
     legato, leggiero, machine gun, marcando, mezzo staccato, minim,
     morendo, music-making, musical note, natural, noninterruption,
     note, oscillating, oscillation, palpitant, palpitation, parlando,
     patent note, perennial, performance, perpetual, perpetuity,
     pianism, pianissimo, piano, pitapat, pitter-patter, pizzicato,
     pounding, prestissimo, presto, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation,
     pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, quarter note, quaver,
     quick fire, rallentando, rapid, rapid fire, rapid recurrence,
     rapid succession, rapidity, rat-a-tat, rataplan, regular,
     regularity, rendering, rendition, repeated, repercussion,
     repetition, report, responding note, rhythm, rhythmic, ritardando,
     ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, semibreve,
     semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note,
     slur, sordo, sotto voce, spattering, spiccato, spluttering,
     sputtering, steadiness, steady, stretto, stuttering, sustained,
     sustained note, sustainment, tattoo, tempo, tercet,
     thirty-second note, throb, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking,
     tone, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, triplet, unbroken,
     unceasing, unchanging, unintermission, unintermitted,
     unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruption,
     unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, vibration,
     whole note