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UK
/spɪkˈɑːtəʊ/
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NOUN
- bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings
How To Use spiccato In A Sentence
- For musical purposes a wide variety of different bowing gestures are used, such as martelé (hammered bowing with a sudden release) and spiccato (rapid detached notes with the bow bouncing off the strings).
- The spiccato parts were great, but most of the work ended up sounding like someone driving a car stepping on and off the accelerator.
- He readied himself and then poured his heart into playing that tune -- he worked it around, swished it a few times, tried some variations, caught the fever, and finished off with a fast spiccato variation. Violists
- You actually need to shift in places from a spiccato to a d'tach-," Bodine rapidly talking a Corporate Wife of some sort across the room toward the free-lunch table piled with lobster hors d'oeuvres and capon sandwiches - "less bow, higher up you understand, soften it-then there's also about a thousand ppp-to-fff blasts, but only the one, the notorious One, going the other way. ... Gravity's Rainbow
- Though her bow-arm is fluent, she doesn't produce a natural, biting spiccato stroke, and she will sometimes push the vibrato on climactic notes rather than let the phrase bloom as an organic whole. Violinist Chee-Yun plays lovely Bach, Messiaen, Saint-Saens at Kennedy Center
- Watch Siem as he tosses off the left-hand pizzicato, double-stop harmonics and spiccato bowing as if he were buttering bread. NPR Topics: News
- The _martellato_, a _nuance_ of _spiccato_, should be played with a firm bowing at the point. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
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- The strings punctuated the word with furious, almost violent spiccato playing.
- With respect to the amazing technical wizardry written into the original work (i.e. left-hand pizzicato, harmonics, spiccato bowings, etc.), Gao asserted, ‘I try to do as much as I can physically.’