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How is pincé played?
Pluck the indicated string with a finger instead of drawing the bow, then return to bowed playing when avec l’archet or arco appears. Check period and instrument before applying this reading: in French Baroque ornament terminology, pincé can instead name a lower mordent, so the word is not context-free.
How does pincé sound?
short, plucked, attacked sound
In context
The Académie française defines cordes pincées as strings set in vibration by finger or plectrum, and Indiana University documents Marais using pincé with pizzicato meaning in viol music. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis also documents pincé as a historical mordent name. Pizz. is the abbreviation of Italian pizzicato, not of pincé, and no stable French abbreviation was found.
Equivalent terms
- IT pizzicato
- DE gezupft
- DE Pizzicato
- EN plucked
- EN pizzicato