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Pizzicato

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(from Ital. pizzicare, to pluck or twitch), a term in music for a direction to the players of stringed instruments, that the passage so marked is to be played by plucking the strings with the fingers instead of using the bow.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pizzicato'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pizzicato.html. 1910.
 
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