Tratteggiato

Tratteggiato is an articulationArticulationThe manner in which individual notes are attacked, sustained, and released.View full entry → direction specific to bowed string instruments, calling for a series of short, lightly drawn strokes that produce a textureTextureThe way melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic materials are woven together in a composition.View full entry → somewhere between staccatoStaccatoShort, detached notesView full entry → and tremoloTremoloRapid repetition of a single note or alternation between two notes.View full entry →. The bow remains on the string but moves in quick, interrupted motions that allow each note to decay naturally before the next stroke begins.