Staccato: alternatives and connections

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens…

With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performa…

From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so re…

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an…

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indic…

State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its litera…

Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs…

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a…

The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, atte…

Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the pas…

A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three…