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pizzicato
[ pit-si-kah-toh; Italian peet-tsee-kah-taw ]
adjective
- played by plucking the strings with the finger instead of using the bow, as on a violin.
noun
- a note or passage so played.
pizzicato
/ 藢辫瑟迟蝉瑟藞办蓱藧迟蓹蕣 /
adjective
- (in music for the violin family) to be plucked with the finger
noun
- the style or technique of playing a normally bowed stringed instrument in this manner
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pizzicato1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pizzicato1
Example Sentences
鈥淪inners,鈥 which Warner Bros. landed in a competitive bidding war, announced itself in a teaser that was simply blood and pizzicato strings.
鈥淧isachi鈥 alternates between hushed, singing harmonics and piquant rhythms painted in impassioned tremolos and spiky pizzicatos.
At his signal, the strings went off on a pizzicato run, buoyed by harps and congas, before dissolving into a bass drum pulse beneath simmering horns.
Its dusty pizzicato tremolo had the predawn rustle of someone waking up and shuffling to the kitchen to prepare the morning鈥檚 brew before the household had awakened.
The rhythm hops from key clicks on a bass clarinet to pizzicato strings; it鈥檚 juxtaposed with sighing melody lines and hints of a circus band, making the most of its three-and-a-half minutes.
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