senza
Preposition
Meaning
Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnagrams
Examples
In older music the composer sometimes provided just one part for this pair of instruments, writing senza piatti or piatti soli ( Italian "without cymbals" or "cymbals only" main) if only one of the instruments is needed.
In 1894 he published his first collection of short stories, Amori senza Amore.
The conventional Italian markings for mute usage are con sord., or con sordina, meaning 'with mute'; and senza sord., meaning 'without mute'; or via sord., meaning 'mute off'.
The player uses the mute when the Italian instruction con sordino appears in the bass part, and removes it in response to senza sordino.