This mode of playing is called pizzicato or plucking. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
When playing upon a soft combination on the Great, the organist may draw the Swell to Great "pizzicato" coupler. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
A word that had the audience groaning - except, of course, the symphony team - was "pizzicato". From Wordnik.com. Reference
| Reply | Permalink staccato woodwinds, strings play pizzicato. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: When I Have A Question, I Call Kissinger] Reference
The pizzicato touch is also used mostly in connection with the couplers. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
"Welcome, stranger," he said, calling on the fiddles for a little pizzicato. From Wordnik.com. [Tinker's Dam] Reference
“When they turned loose, something played a pizzicato with icicles up and down my back.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
Then I heard the Second Movement of Debussy's quartet, with its plucked, pizzicato rhythms and exotic melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Dante Quartet: Stirring Up Impressionist Energy] Reference
Performed by a small onstage band: it's tight and wiry, with lots of pizzicato and very little swooning from the strings. From Wordnik.com. [After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone] Reference
She plucked out echoing pizzicato intros and slid seamlessly from one octave to the next while fiddling through melody lines. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Dusty Rhodes and the River Band] Reference
‘Wotan is so clumsy — he knocks over the bowl, and flap-flap-flap go the gasping fishes, pizzicato! — but the sea —’. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
As additional methods facilitating in some cases the transfer of stops must be named the "double touch" and the "pizzicato touch.". From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
So she would agitate him with pizzicato comments and thumb-struck flat-tone responses, to alert his lungs and stimulate his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
"If his pizzicato phrasing lacks Blanton 's urgency," writes Mr. Shipton a bassist himself, "it has an unhurried charm all its own.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Taught America to Scat] Reference
Also, the internet browsing mentality is more geared for quick, pizzicato perusal than it is for reading page after page in sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Brainstorming: Digital Comics #4] Reference
It's a check bass, 1933, and like on this most recent record that I did, I used it for one pizzicato part on a song called Woody Creek. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Meyer, Multi-Purpose Maestro] Reference
It goes on for 20, 40 bars, this feeb's pizzicato, middle-line Kruppsters creak in the bowlegged velvet chairs, bibuhbuhbibuhbuh this does not sound like Haydn, Mutti!. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
XD Also I have to practice that 3 finger pizzicato. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Scolari says he is not taking over Dunga's job] Reference
A snap-pizzicato (also known as Bartok-pizzicato) articulation was added. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
He invented the tremolo and the pizzicato, and originated the vocal duet. From Wordnik.com. [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference
I enjoyed the cadenza-like spot with left-hand pizzicato over a legato line. From Wordnik.com. [Violinist.com] Reference
This I felt obliged to remedy, partly by legato playing, and partly by pizzicato. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 1] Reference
(And still the staccato pizzicato guitar-and-keyboard theme plays in the background). From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
Every now and then came a pizzicato, when I rattled the keys well; I was in my best humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
Outside the pizzicato of the crowds, the Great City, shining, dragon-eyed, through the mist -- the. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
They played a couple of songs I recognized, and more songs I'd never heard, gypsy music, pizzicato. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Tree] Reference
Rossi's degrees of color, played pizzicato, sell this album: music that verifies the throbbing Heart of the World. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
There is a coda of vanishing bird-wings and throats, a pizzicato chord on the strings -- and Spring has had her coronation. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Amid pizzicato strings, lead singer Wesley Miles stretches out long strands of Orbisonian-pulsed poetry about what lies beneath. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
Then came the soft pizzicato of pulled strings, ... and a tinkling jangle of silver bells beating out a measured, languorous rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
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