pizzicato
adjective
played by plucking the strings with the finger instead of using the bow, as on a violin.
pizzicati
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pluralof pizzicato.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the first movement, she lined up emphatic pizzicati with the accents that Aimard plucked out of the solo part.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Their phrases had their own music, but it harmonized with Montgomery’s score and its oscillating rhythms, accelerating pizzicati, scraps of Gershwinesque melody, folk song twang and insect drones.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2021
“Chaos beckons,” Mr. Bartlett gently sings, but he’s belying the orderly intricacy of the music’s Minimalistic fabric of propulsive, gamelan-like bell tones, string-ensemble chords and pizzicati and wraithlike backing vocals, transparent yet rigorous.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
The alluring array of sounds included woodblocklike pizzicati by Ms. Derham and, in the second movement’s “Nocturno,” hollowed-out timbres and glassy harmonics.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
Not that they are hard in a modern way: Bach knew nothing of harmonics, pizzicati, scales in octaves and tenths.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Frederick Herman Martens
