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An instruction to pluck rather than bow a string.
Also known as: Pizz., Arco marking
Pizzicato asks a string player to pluck rather than bow, and arco cancels it. Because the change takes a moment to make, an engraver places the marking well before the note rather than on it, which is a rare case of a symbol being deliberately early.
Instructs a string player to pluck the string with the finger rather than bow it, with 'arco' cancelling the instruction.
Contexts: Music
Is placed ahead of the note it applies to, because changing between bowing and plucking takes physical time.
Contexts: Music
An italic abbreviation of four or five letters printed above or below the staff.