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Tempo (Tempii)
How fast (beats per minute) a piece of
music is. Marked by the composer and
followed by the conductor.
Largo – Very Slow
Dvorak – Largo from “New World
Symphony” (1893) Movement II.
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New
World" - II (part 1) - YouTube
 Antonin
Adagio - Slow
 Samuel
Barber – Adagio for Strings
(1936).
 Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings (1938)
Andante – Walking Tempo
– Symphony #5 II
Andante Cantabile (1888).
Horn Solo's Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony
Stefan Dohr - YouTube
 Tchaikovsky
Moderato - Moderately

I.
II.
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto
#2
Moderato (1901)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number
2 Movement I.
Allegro – fast and joyful.
– Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K. 525
Movement I. Allegro (1787).
W.A.Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
(Complete, rec.1973) Slovak Chamber
Orchestra - YouTube
 Mozart
Vivace – very fast and lively
 Tchaikovsky
Symphony #4 IV. Allegro
Vivace (1877).
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 4th mvmt YouTube
The “continuum of tempo”
etto, ino
Grave
q= 40-50
Largo
60-70
issimo
Adagio Andante Moderato Allegro
70-80
80-100
Vivo
100-119 120-140 140-160
Presto
160+
Tempo markings can be altered
with suffixes
ino – less than what it is.
 Brings the tempo “toward the center of the
continuum of tempo”.
 issimo – more than what it is.
 Brings the tempo “away from the center of
the continuum of tempo”.
 Ex. Allegretto = slower than Allegro.
 Ex. Vivissimo = Faster than Vivace
 etto,
Some other descriptive terms
Molto, Assai – very
 Meno – less
 Scherzo – joke
 Mosso – motion
 Con brio – briskly
 Deciso – decisively
 Ma non troppo – but not
too much
 Comodo – comfortably
 Tempo primo – back to
original tempo

Cantabile – singingly
 Grazioso – gracefully
 Pesante – heavily
 Sempre – always
 Sostenuto – sustained
 Batutta – one measure is
one beat
 Espressivo – expressivley
 Maestoso – Majestically
 Con Moto – with motion

Define the following tempo
markings
 Adagietto
 Larghetto
 Andantino
 Allegro
Molto
 Adagio assai
 Allegro ma non troppo
 Prestissimo
 Allegro con brio