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spiccato

spiccato adjective: detached; separated; with every note performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

Adjective

spiccato (comparative more spiccato, superlative most spiccato)

  1. Detached; separated; with every note performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

Adverb

spiccato (comparative more spiccato, superlative most spiccato)

  1. Played in that style.

Noun

spiccato (plural spiccatos)

  1. A manner of playing a stringed instrument such that the bow is bounced off the strings after each note.
    • Most libraries have smooth, buttery legatos and exciting, natural-sounding spiccatos.2019, Gina Zdanowicz, Spencer Bambrick, The Game Audio Strategy Guide: A Practical Course

Forms of spiccato

Adjective
comparativemore spiccato
superlativemost spiccato
Adverb
comparativemore spiccato
superlativemost spiccato
Noun
pluralspiccatos

Origin of spiccato

Borrowed from Italian spiccato, past participle of spiccare (“to detach, to separate”).

Questions about spiccato

What does spiccato mean?
Spiccato means detached; separated; with every note performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
What part of speech is spiccato?
Spiccato can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near spiccato in the dictionary

  1. spicated
  2. spicately
  3. spicatoside
  4. spicatum
  5. spicc.
  6. spiccato
  7. spiccatos
  8. spice
  9. spice bag
  10. spice bags
  11. spice box

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