Crossword clues for staccato
staccato
- What a dot indicates on a musical score
- Unsustained, in music
- Playing style with disconnected notes
- Musically disconnected
- Musically detached
- Meaning of a dot above a note
- Like dotted musical notes
- Disconnected, as in music
- Detached, on a score
- Detached, musically
- Detached, in music
- Choppy, to Chopin
- Cat's coat (anag) — clipped
- (Musically) short and crisp
- Choppy, in music
- Cut short in performing
- Disconnected, musically
- In rapid-fire succession
- Disconnected, as notes
- With short, clipped notes
- Notes not making the connection, as a moggy seeing its reflection in well
- Rapid-fire, musically
- Clipped, in music
- Short and abrupt
- Opposite of legato
- Broken off, musically
- Abruptly disconnected, in music
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staccato \Stac*ca"to\ (st[.a]k*k[aum]"t[-o]), a. [It., p. p. of staccare, equivalent to distaccare. See Detach.]
(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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Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism].
--G. Eliot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1724, from Italian staccato, literally "detached, disconnected," past participle of staccare "to detach," shortened form of distaccare "separate, detach," from Middle French destacher, from Old French destachier "to detach" (see detach). As an adverb from 1844. Related: Staccatissimo.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context music English) Describing a passage having this mark. 2 Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds. adv. (context music English) played in this style n. 1 (context music English) An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead. 2 (context music English) A passage having this mark.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration, separated from the note that may follow by silence. It has been described by theorists and appeared in music since at least 1676.
Staccato is a form of musical articulation, signifying an unconnected note.
Staccato may also refer to:
- Johnny Staccato, an American private detective series and its title character
- Staccato Peaks, a series of rock peaks in the south part of Alexander Island
- The Five Man Electrical Band, a Canadian rock group formerly known as The Staccatos
- Staccato, a comic by Shawn Handyside
- Staccato lightning, a form of lightning
- Staccato cough, a type of cough
- Mr. Staccato, a character in The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
Staccato is a music company, specialising in guitars and drums.
Usage examples of "staccato".
The lanky slicer was peering through an access panel with his magnispecs flipped down, manipulating a micrograbber in each hand and muttering to himself in a high-pitched, staccato manner that sounded alarmingly like machine code.
As he listened to the staccato picking and arpeggiated runs of the song, Jury thought that anonymity was not that hard to come by.
The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.
A staccato blast of gunfire instantly boomed and echoed through the cyanogen atmosphere within the tower, when his men followed his lead.
A possum yarred from the big eucalypt Jack had left standing behind to shade the cottage, and Rory answered its challenge with staccato yaps.
The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
Ommony grunted a monosyllable and the jungli turned loose floods of speech--little staccato freshets in his case that broke forth and were dry again.
Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room.
He made a quick, staccato report of the discovery and capture of Lifer Stone.
He misses their sharp staccato conversations, their sublingual grunts, their smell of oniony sweat.
He concentrated on being Juve, and Juve was checking out the scene, with long Yardbird Parker riffs, all staccato, in his head.
From the wall annunciators there poured out a staccato howl of static through which could be dimly heard an alien gobbling which was presumably the SRTT sound tape.
When the light staccato of a knock sounded on the outer door of her apartments she sprinted past a grinning Meryt to open it herself.
From time to time staccato notes of delight added a distinct jubilant quality to this symphony, heralding the arrival of some group of Church dignitaries from one or other of the seven principal parishes of Venice, gorgeous in robes of high festival and displaying the choicest of treasures from sacristies munificently endowed, as was meet for an ecclesiastical body to whom belonged one half of the area of Venice, with wealth proportionate.
The sackers barked their staccato duet again, and this time plumes of timber and debris rose above the town.