Pizzicato
In orchestras composers used pizzicato in the 17th century.  Monteverdi used it in his opera Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.  In the 19th century the Romantic composers often asked for pizzicato.  Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 4 has a whole scherzo movement for pizzicato strings.  Johann Strauss wrote a Pizzicato Polka and in the 20th century Britten wrote a whole movement for pizzicato strings in his Simple Symphony.