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- Abbreviation
- sempre stacc.
How is sempre staccato played?
Keep successive notes short and separated for the entire marked passage rather than treating the direction as one local gesture. Preserve sempre because it carries the continuing scope; stacc. alone does not say the same thing. The degree of shortening and the player action depend on tempo, instrument, style and surrounding notation. Continue until another articulation, an explicit cancellation or a clear endpoint supersedes the direction.
How does sempre staccato sound?
A consistently detached articulation, not just a local staccato gesture.
In context
Musicca directly expands sempre stacc., while Casella’s Pupazzetti and the reproduced Stravinsky Rite of Spring score independently print the exact phrase. These witnesses establish the text form without turning staccato dots into abbreviations. The result is a consistently detached span, not a fixed note-length formula or an instruction to use one universal physical technique.