Definition of Staccatos

1. Noun. (plural of staccato) ¹

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Definition of Staccatos

1. staccato [n] - See also: staccato

Lexicographical Neighbors of Staccatos

stablishment
stablishments
stablisht
stably
stabproof
stabs
stabulation
stabulations
stabvest
stabwound
stabwounds
staccati
staccatissimo
staccato
staccato speech
staccatos
stache
staches
stachybotryotoxicosis
stachybotrys
stachydrine
stachyose
stachyses
stack
stack-guard
stack-guards
stack away
stack off
stack trace
stack traces

Literary usage of Staccatos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music (1898)
"The only- excuse which may be given for this spurious employment of staccatos is that there is undoubtedly often an inclination to hold notes longer than ..."

2. Music (1894)
"can be easily taught the rules for speaking the words in song, and the staccatos, trills, crescendos and diminuendos come to children so easily that by the ..."

3. Anthology of German piano musicby Moritz Moszkowski by Moritz Moszkowski (1914)
"Ebenso ist vielfach die Ansicht ausge- sprochen worden, dass man sich in alteren Fugen des Staccatos ganzlich zu enthalten habe. Beides erscheint mir nicht ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... who copied with more or less success his harmonics and double-harmonics, his long and quick staccatos, pizzicatos with the left hand — in fact, ..."

5. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... And staccatos are so sweet, — His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation — Be they near or far away — Have ..."

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