Talk:Pizzicato

I changed the bit about coll'arco indicating a return to bowing after a pizz, so that it now reads simply arco (as it did before). I don't if it would be correct to just say "arco" in spoken Italian, but I know that in sheet music (which is what the paragraph is about), the single word arco is used almost exclusively. --Camembert

I am not concerned with spoken Italian. For the form used in sheet music, please see: http://www.xrefer.com/entry/238167
S.

Well, I find it somewhat surprising that Oxford should see fit to give coll'arco an entry of its own, because I know from years of violin playing that one sees it only extremely rarely (usually in old manuscripts). xrefer also has http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=352532&secid=.-&hh=1 and http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=236399&secid=.-&hh=1 (which is also from Oxford). Honestly, I wouldn't have changed it back unless I was absolutely certain that arco is a thousand times more common than coll'arco. --Camembert

I agree (unregistered viola player who has played for more years than you have had hot dinners).

Guitar-style by players of bowed instruments

Even if a piece is pizzicato throughout, I'm fairly certain the player will still hold the instrument in the upright position, unless it's specifically called for by the composer as mentioned in the passage about the "quasi guitara" section.