Crossword-Solution: STACCATOS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet-- His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation-- Be they near or far away-- Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet-- His roulades, appogiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation-- Be they near or far away-- Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.

When I was younger, really, at one time I had a very poor _staccato_!" [I assured the young artist that any one who heard him play here would find it hard to believe this.] "Yes, I did," he insisted, "but one morning, I do not know just how it was--I was playing the _cadenza_ in the first movement of Wieniawski's F♯ minor concerto,--it is full of _staccatos_ and double stops--the right way of playing _staccato_ came to me quite suddenly, especially after Professor Auer had shown me his method.

For one can play correctly, but horribly! Some staccatos should be shaken out of the sleeve as it were.

With an evident appreciation of the necessities of old-time music he had a great admiration for clean fingering, especially in fugue playing, and he objected to the use of Cramer's studies in the instruction of his nephew by Czerny because they led to what he called a "sticky" style of play, and failed to bring out crisp staccatos and a light touch.