How to Use pizzicato in a Sentence

pizzicato

noun

• As the title suggests, pizzicato plucking and outright strumming of the strings plays a large role in the work.
  — cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
• But there is also comfort: the warmth of the hearth fire, tranquil and legato on the bow; lazy days punctuated only by the pizzicato of ice droplets on the roof.
  — Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• A passage in which the brass sustain glowing tones over a swarm of pizzicato felt like the sonic double of a sultry summer night.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Runs and rapid pizzicato flung out from his Stradivarius with precision and fire.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• This one stands out not just for the energy of its concluding dance, but also the third movement, where Telemann gives the melody to the organ, while the cello picks out the bass line in pizzicato.
  — E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020
• Her style, which finds her switching from bow saws to nimble pizzicato, weaves together lots of moods and dynamics.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2018
• Kalmar drew some fine turns of phrase in the light-and-lyrical second movement, with deftly expressive pizzicato playing.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• For the pizzicato strings in the Scherzo, Dudamel put his right hand in pants pocket and conducted by flicking his head and by facial expressions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• How about playing this passage bowed instead of pizzicato?
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The wine imagery continues in the music itself — a pizzicato chord signals a cork popping, and further passages depict subsequent tastes of the wine.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
• Ken, besides his classical roots, is deeply invested in the pop sound world and particularly the use of pizzicato on the cello and all the possibilities there.
  — Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Both Greensmith and violist Jonathan Vinocour were impressive in their ability to blend and drive through unison tremolos and pizzicato passages.
  — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• The first movement was nigh-on perfect, a model of musical forces in unshakeable balance, and the Scherzo was thrilling in its depth of dynamic contrast and exquisitely refined pizzicato.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
• The pause—punctuated by three widely separated pizzicato chords—feels like a chasm.
  — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
• Its bustle of puffing trumpets and pizzicato strings were cut by entrancing interjections of oboe.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Korngold puts the strings through their paces, tasking them with an array including churning melodies, extended pizzicato work, a poignant chorale, and an aggressive finale.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 20 June 2021
• Gomyo brought an enormous palette of colors and textures to her performance, from seamless, ethereal sounds in the opening sections to pure, muted sounds, snapping pizzicato sounds and crisp, decisive rhythms.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2018
• The slow, halting melody conveys both his longing and his desolation; a curiously lilting bass line for pizzicato strings seems to mock Ariodante with a hint of Ginevra’s fickleness.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Part animation, part live action — all of it morbid — the film, produced in conjunction with the National Education Association, opens with a two-bit jingle sung over a pizzicato bass.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
• The later pizzicato reprise also was a delight, Thomas playing with the orchestra’s dimensionality in exciting ways.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Bobbing heads dotted the audience through the scherzo, its pizzicato stretch particularly beguiling.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• Oboes and bassoons sounded by themselves, a piccolo duet was accompanied by several violins playing pizzicato, and horns bellowed in their lowest register.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 June 2018
• Two emotionally charged movements in memory of Dvorak and his daughter resonated in other ways: with throbbing clarinets, a ravishing solo by concertmaster William Preucil, and an otherworldly hushed passage for pizzicato strings.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Varied effects of vibrato, portamento and pizzicato bring different shades of intensity, atmosphere, eloquence: Even a single austere cello line down a few tones can become fraught with significance.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• The quartet and Dinnerstein largely reflected or illustrated Penelope’s emotional state and surroundings: gritty turmoil when Odysseus departed for war, fluttering, hopeful pizzicato when Penelope recognized her husband in his guise as a beggar.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• As the title suggests, pizzicato plucking and outright strumming of the strings plays a large role in the work.
  — cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
• But there is also comfort: the warmth of the hearth fire, tranquil and legato on the bow; lazy days punctuated only by the pizzicato of ice droplets on the roof.
  — Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• A passage in which the brass sustain glowing tones over a swarm of pizzicato felt like the sonic double of a sultry summer night.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Runs and rapid pizzicato flung out from his Stradivarius with precision and fire.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017

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