Stacca’to (It.; superl. s/accatis’simos abbr. stacc.)

“‘ Detached, separated”; noting a style in which the tones Played or sung are more or le abruptly disconnected. The ordinary staccato is marked by round dots over or under the notes; a sharper staccato, by wedge shaped dashes (ihe martel! of violin. playing); the meszo-staccato, in which the tones are nearly run together, has a slur over the staccato-dots.— Staccato mark, a dot or wedge-shaped stroke, Stadt’mus i kanten, -pleifer, -zinke nis ten (Ger., pl.) Salaried town-musicians, belonging to a privileged guild which originated in the rsth (?) century, and under obligations to furnish music for civic ceremonies; their leader had the title of Stadt’ musikus. (Also Amts’ Pfeifer, Kunst pfei fer.)