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'''Pizzicato''' (from Italian ''pizzicare'', to pluck, pinch)<ref>Webster's New World College Dictionary, 2005</ref> refers to a playing technique of plucking the strings on a stringed instrument.  Different techniques are used on different instruments, such as the [[violin]] or the [[guitar]].   

'''Pizzicato''' (from Italian ''pizzicare'', to pluck, pinch)<ref>Webster's New World College Dictionary, 2005</ref> refers to a playing technique of plucking the strings on a stringed instrument.  Different techniques are used on different instruments, such as the [[violin]] or the [[guitar]]. The plural form of pizzicato is "pizzicati."  

==History==

==History==

The pizzicato technique first saw use in Claudio Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, which was performed in the mid 1600's, sometime around 1638.  Various other pieces of music use pizzicato; specific instructions are provided to performers when to use pizzicato.

The pizzicato technique first saw use in Claudio Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, which was performed in the mid 1600's, sometime around 1638.  Various other pieces of music use pizzicato; specific instructions are provided to performers when to use pizzicato. The abbreviation "pizz." is typically used in a musical score to indicate the use of pizzicato, and the peformer is to continue until the point when "arco" (which means "bowed") is written.

Pizzicato is also popular in [[jazz]] and [[blues]] music, particularly with the [[double bass]].  Double bass parts in these styles are almost exclusively plucked, as opposed to being played with a bow.

Pizzicato is also popular in [[jazz]] and [[blues]] music, particularly with the [[double bass]].  Double bass parts in these styles are almost exclusively plucked, as opposed to being played with a bow.