Pizzicato (redirected from pizzicatos)

pizzicato (pĭt'səkä`tō), in music, the technique of plucking the strings of an instrument that is usually bowed. Directions for playing pizzicato are found in early 17th-century music. Paganini introduced left-hand pizzicato, making it possible to play bowed tones and pizzicato tones simultaneously or in alternation.

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pizzicato Music

1. (in music for the violin family) to be plucked with the finger

2. the style or technique of playing a normally bowed stringed instrument in this manner

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Pizzicato 

(1) The method of producing sound on a bowed stringed instrument by plucking the strings.

(2) An instrumental piece, the performance of which is based on the above method.