pizzicato

Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

A pizzicato note or passage.

In music for stringed instruments of the viol family, noting the manner of playing, or the effect produced, when the strings are plucked or twanged by the finger, as in harp-playing, instead of sounded by means of the bow.

A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)

An instruction to players of stringed instruments to pluck the strings instead of using the bow. Abbreviation: pizz.

A stretch of music that is played pizzicato

a note or passage that is played pizzicato

(of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger

with a light plucking staccato sound