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Meanings of
pizzicato
in English
Pizzicato.
Related terms
plucked
Usage of
pizzicato
in English
1
The
pizzicato
touch is also used mostly in connection with the couplers.
2
The piano mimics the
pizzicato
sound by muting string inside the piano.
3
Like most musicians, they turn into children when they play
pizzicato
.
4
A blazing conclusion that was cut off with a couple of
pizzicato
chords.
5
This I felt obliged to remedy, partly by legato playing, and partly by
pizzicato
.
6
The second movement begins
pizzicato
and becomes openly dissonant.
7
Every now and then came a
pizzicato
,
when I rattled the keys well; I was in my best humor.
8
Outside the
pizzicato
of the crowds, the Great City, shining, dragon-eyed, through the mist-theCity That Has No Heart.
9
Theirs was playing full of rhythmic elasticity and grace, with marvellous momentum and clear, strong
pizzicato
in the second movement.
10
When Garry appeared the wood-fire was blazing and Caesare was plucking in nervous
pizzicato
at the strings of his fiddle.
11
So she would agitate him with
pizzicato
comments and thumb-struck flat-tone responses, to alert his lungs and stimulate his heart.
12
There is a coda of vanishing bird-wings and throats, a
pizzicato
chord on the strings-andSpring has had her coronation.
13
When playing upon a soft combination on the Great, the organist may draw the Swell to Great
"
pizzicato
"
coupler.
14
The acoustic was a particular problem in the slow movement where quiet
pizzicato
on the higher strings was totally inaudible from my seat.
15
As additional methods facilitating in some cases the transfer of stops must be named the "double touch" and the
"
pizzicato
touch."
16
It sounds elegant,
pizzicato
,
like the Koto music I sometimes listen to when I'm writing or cooking: background music that settles the mind.
Other examples for "pizzicato"
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About this term
pizzicato
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
pizzicato touch
begin pizzicato
come a pizzicato
nervous pizzicato
pizzicato chord
More collocations
Pizzicato
through the time