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Definition of Staccatos
1. staccato [n] - See also: staccato
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staccatos
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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