Spiccato is usually performed at the balance portion of the bow.

While playing spiccato, the bow is literally bouncing off the string.

The speed with which the spiccato is performed depends on bow placement.

Spiccato meant, they write, "simply detached or separated as opposed to legato."

Spiccato is usually associated with lively playing.

If the bounce becomes higher at this speed, it is really a flying staccato or flying spiccato.

The distinctive use of the term spiccato for the bouncing bowstroke emerged in the later 18th century.

Spiccato - Technique that uses a bowing style that leaves the string clearly to produce a light "bouncing" sound.

Spiccato is a bowing technique for string instruments in which the bow bounces lightly upon the string.

The character of the spiccato can be varied by altering the tilt and placement of the bow to use more or fewer hairs.

His best known work, the "Elves dance", makes extensive use of spiccato and is a show piece for intermediate beginners of the violin.

Spiccato becomes Sautillé at faster tempos, due to the lower amplitude of the "bounce".

Also participating in Sydney's International Music Festival competition that year was the college's string group Spiccato.

At the balance point - about a third from the frog - the spiccato will be slow, while above the middle of the bow the speed will increase.

The challenging solo part consists mainly of long spiccato runs, along with double stops, artificial harmonics and left-hand pizzicato; in 2/4 time.

But from the cacophony arose jazz riffs, passages of complex spiccato bowing and parodies of Paganini-style virtuosity.

These techniques include legato-style bowing, collé, ricochet, sautillé, martelé, spiccato, and staccato.

They need to agree on special techniques, such as spiccato, sul tasto, sul ponticello, and so on.

The cellist Laurence Lesser remembers Baker as having "an astonishing spiccato near the point of the bow, just like Heifetz - whom he worshipped".

The piece was rich in beguiling timbres; one especially memorable passage paired Ms. Muhly's spiccato bounces with twinkling crotales.

Rolland moved back to the mainland with his completed prototypes in order to launch the Spiccato bows carbon fiber manufacture in Vannes, Brittany.

On a violin, spiccato bowing comes off the string, but on a cello, the wood of the bow may rise briskly up without the hair actually leaving the string.

The notation with dots under slurs is ambiguous, because it is also used for very different bowings, including staccato and flying spiccato (Walls 2001a; Walls 2001b).

It also utilises many types of extended cello technique, including left-hand pizzicato, spiccato and flautando bowing, false harmonics and portamenti.

The rest of the quartet had had to become expert in using another technique (German Spitzen) to get around Hauser and Ipolyi's inability to play spiccato.

But from the cacophony arose jazz riffs, passages of complex spiccato bowing and parodies of Paganini-style virtuosity.

On a violin, spiccato bowing comes off the string, but on a cello, the wood of the bow may rise briskly up without the hair actually leaving the string.