staccato

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The book’s 47 staccato chapters jump from one subject to another without much of a discernible pattern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The progression of the façades from warm rose to pink-cream to mauve-green is knit together by the blues and sienna of the windows, anchored by the staccato pink and green water below.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

They all dig Frankie and the Witch Fingers, an L.A.-based band whose irresistible garagey-psychedelic rock sometimes even invokes shades of Oingo Boingo and Devo thanks to a staccato freneticism and pointed lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

How England survive his staccato approach and educated fingers will go a long way to deciding the series.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

For example, most ballads are sung legato, and most marches are played fairly staccato or marcato, whether they are marked that way or not.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones