tempo

Noun

Meaning

The rate or degree of movement in time.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pace cadence time rate speed measure beat rhythm timing pulse meter swing metre pacing allegro
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Antonyms

waddle hobble shamble instant optimistic cheerful
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Hypernyms

rate musical time

Hyponyms

allegro bpm andante allegretto rubato accelerando

Phrases with the word

andante tempo in slow tempo relaxed tempo brisk tempo tempo value tempo duration

Derivatives

tempi

Examples

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. Travis Barker

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience. Aaron Copland

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes. Bob Dylan

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro. Joseph Haydn

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. Karlheinz Stockhausen

Chi ha tempo, n ' aspëte tempo. Ligurian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

templise templize templon tempo duration tempo mark tempo marking