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Detached, as if dotted: short, light, separated notes; in string parts, a light, springing stroke close to spiccato.
Printed above a passage, usually in string parts, often over notes that also carry staccato dots; spelled picchettato or picchiettato. It holds until another bowing or articulation word.
Also spelled: picchiettato
An older Italian word for a light, detached, dotted style; string players read it close to spiccato or a light bowed staccato. Today composers usually write spiccato, staccato or simply dots, which are clearer, so you will meet picchettato mainly in older scores and dictionaries.
Picchettato is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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