Associations to the word «Arco»

Wiktionary

ARCO, adverb. (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.

Dictionary definition

ARCO, adjective. (of instruments in the violin family) to be played with the bow.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope