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Pizzicato

noun
1.
A note or passage that is played pizzicato.





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"Pizzicato" Quotes from Famous Books



... facilitating in some cases the transfer of stops must be named the "double touch" and the "pizzicato touch." The former, though practically introduced by Hope-Jones and found in most of his organs built during the last fifteen years, was, we believe, invented by a Frenchman and applied to reed organs. The pizzicato touch ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller
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... notable point is that in not one thing played at this concert might the human note be heard. The suite (Op. 55) and the symphony (Op. 36) are full of novel and dazzling effects—for example, the scherzo of the symphony played mainly by the strings pizzicato, and the scherzo of the suite, with the short, sharp notes of the brass and the rattle of the side-drum; the melodies also are new, and in their way beautiful; in form both symphony and suite are nearly as clear as anything Tschaikowsky wrote: in fact, each work is a masterwork. But ...
— Old Scores and New Readings • John F. Runciman
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Words linked to "Pizzicato" :   music, plucked


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