col punta d'arco

[Italian, at the point (of the bow)] An Italian term for at the point.

Arco: Italian for bow. Written in after passages of pizzicato (plucked) notes. Means to return to playing with the bow.

with the bow : with the bow. used as a direction following a pizzicato passage in a musical score for strings.

The strings are sounded either by drawing the bow across them (arco), or by plucking them (pizzicato). The left hand regulates the sounding length of the strings by stopping them against the fingerboard with the fingers, producing different pitches.

The genus Tabebuia has over 100 species but one of the best know is pau d'arco (Portuguese), palo de arco (Spanish), purple lapacho (English) or bow wood. It is an extremely useful lumber tree and the Amazon Indians used it commonly to make their bows.

a gradual decrease in the volume of The definition of decrescendo is a gradual decrease in the volume of music.

D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯. Its key signature has two sharps.

bow From Old Galician-Portuguese arco, arquo (“arch, bow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

neck Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).

collar noun. collar [noun] the part of a garment at the neck especially of a shirt, jacket etc.

An example of this is in William Kroll's Banjo and Fiddle, where the violinist pluck the strings in both directions. Edward Elgar used the pizzicato tremolo in the orchestral part for the third movement of his violin concerto.

It is technically possible for string players to play both arco (with a bow) and pizzicato (plucking the strings) simult.