Usage examples (17)

• The word spiccato comes from an Italian verb which means "to separate".
• Before the mid-1700s, the terms spiccato and staccato where used interchangably to mean notes that where separated.
• And now we're going to hear what's called the spiccato bowing.
• 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...