spiccato

spiccato
    n 1: bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the
         strings [syn: {spiccato}, {spiccato bowing}]
    

Spiccato \Spic*ca"to\, a. [It., p. p. of spicare to detach, to
   separate.] (Mus.)
   Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is
   to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
   [1913 Webster]
    

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiccato":
      a cappella, abbandono, accidental, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio,
      affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile,
      amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato,
      breve, brillante, cantando, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita,
      con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, crotchet, decrescendo,
      demilegato, demisemiquaver, diminuendo, dolce, dominant,
      dominant note, double whole note, eighth note, enharmonic,
      enharmonic note, execution, expression, fingering, flat, forte,
      fortissimo, glissando, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, intonation,
      lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero,
      marcando, mezzo staccato, minim, morendo, music-making,
      musical note, natural, note, parlando, patent note, performance,
      pianism, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto,
      quarter note, quaver, rallentando, rendering, rendition,
      repercussion, report, responding note, ritardando, ritenuto,
      rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, semibreve, semiquaver,
      shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, slur, sordo,
      sotto voce, staccato, stretto, sustained note, tercet,
      thirty-second note, tone, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando,
      triplet, whole note