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‖ staccato, a. (adv., n.) Mus.|stakˈkato, stəˈkɑːtəʊ|
[It., pa. pple. of staccare, shortened form of distaccare: see detach v.]
Detached, disconnected, i.e. with breaks between successive notes. Used adj. or advb. as a direction to a performer to render a passage in this style; also as n., a succession of disconnected notes. Also transf. in all these uses.
1724Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Staccato, or Stoccato. See the word Spiccato. 1787Beckford Italy, etc. (1834) II. 40 The monotonous staccato of the guitar. 1806J. Odell Ess. 146 A certain staccato utterance of the emphatic syllables. 1844Hood More Hullah-baloo 54 A van with iron bars to play staccato. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 397 Turn to a page of Macaulay, and wince under..its unlovely staccato. 1883Black Shandon Bells xxx, The staccato remarks about the probability of another..war,..developed into..abuse of the foreign policy.
b. Path. staccato speech, staccato utterance: see scanning ppl. a. 2.
1898Syd. Soc. Lex., Staccato utterance. The same as Scanning utterance. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 144 The staccato speech.
Hence staˈccato, v. trans. To play (a piece of music) in a staccato manner; staˈccatoed, ppl. a.
1814J. T. Coleridge in Ld. Coleridge Story Devon. Ho. xvi. (1905) 231 It is always as if one should staccato a slow and pathetic air. 1818Busby Gram. Mus. 445 By the intervention of staccatoed notes or short rests. 1882A. Edwardes Ballroom Repent. I. 147 The exclamation comes in staccatoed accents from Mrs. Dormer. |