'Spiccato' definitions:
Definition of 'spiccato'
(from WordNet)
noun
Bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings [syn: spiccato, spiccato bowing]
Definition of 'Spiccato'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'spiccato'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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