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[Italian, past participle of staccare, to detach, short for distaccare, from obsolete French destacher, from Old French destachier. See detach.]
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A direction in music meaning that the notes should be performed in an abrupt, sharp, clear-cut manner.
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We could hear the staccato sound of a woodpecker in the woods.
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In musical notation, the Italian word staccato (literally detached, plural staccati) indicates that notes are separated in a detached and distinctly separate manner or short and separated, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note.[1] The rhythm is not affected. Notes identified as staccato are often played or sung abruptly and short. They are usually denoted by a dot over the head of the note when the stem is downward, or by a dot below the head of the note when the stem is upward.
Sometimes in the classical music era (the piano works of Mozart, for example) some sort of an accent mark might be used instead, which leads to uncertainty as to what the composer intended. Accentuation and staccato effects at times go hand in hand, but scarcely so in most modern works.
Playing staccato is the opposite of playing legato. A staccato passage for strings does not necessarily have to be pizzicato, though pizzicato itself might be thought of as a kind of staccato effect. For example, Leroy Anderson's Jazz Legato/Jazz Pizzicato. There is an intermediate articulation called either mezzo staccato or non-legato.
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| Translations: Staccato |
Dansk (Danish)
adv. - stakkato, i ryk
adj. - stakkato, i ryk
n. - stakkato
Nederlands (Dutch)
staccato, ritmisch
Français (French)
adv. - staccato
adj. - (Mus) staccato, (gén) saccadé
n. - (Mus) staccato
Deutsch (German)
adj. - abgehackt, (Mus.) staccato
adv. - abgehackt, (Mus.) staccato
n. - (Mus.) Staccato
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj., -
adv. - (μουσ., μτφ.) στακάτο
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - destacado (Mús.), descontínuo
adv. - descontinuamente
Español (Spanish)
adv. - entrecortadamente
adj. - entrecortado
n. - staccato
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - stackato-, stackaterad
adv. - stötvis
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
成断音地, 断音的, 断奏的, 断音, 断奏
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 成斷音地
adj. - 斷音的, 斷奏的
n. - 斷音, 斷奏
한국어 (Korean)
adv. - 스타카토로
adj. - 스타카토의, 끊는음의, 급속한 단속음으로 이루어진
n. - 스타카토 주법, 급속한 단속음
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) متقطعا (ظرف) بتقطع
עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - סטקאטו (באופן מנותק - כל תו מנוגן בנפרד מהאחרים)
adj. - נפרד, מנותק
n. - קטע מוסיקלי שנכתב לנגינת סטקאטו
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| Staccato and Legato I, for piano (Mikrokosmos Vol. 2/38), Sz. 107/2/38, BB 105/38 (Classical Work) |
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