Arco vs. Pizzicato — What's the Difference?

With a bow. Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage.

Pizzicato (, Italian: [pittsiˈkaːto]; translated as "pinched", and sometimes roughly as "plucked") is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument. The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of instrument : On bowed string instruments it is a method of playing by plucking the strings with the fingers, rather than using the bow.

(music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

A pizzicato note or passage.

(music) To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.

(music) A note that is played pizzicato

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

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

With a light plucking staccato sound