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Tempo

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This is from fast to slow taken from Wikipedia, the ones in red are used a lot

 

  • Prestissimo — extremely fast (more than 200bpm)
  • Vivacissimamente — adverb of vivacissimo, "very quickly and lively"
  • Vivacissimo — very fast and lively
  • Presto — very fast (168–200 bpm)
  • Allegrissimo — very fast
  • Vivo — lively and fast
  • Vivace — lively and fast (≈140 bpm)
  • Allegro — fast and bright or "march tempo" (120–168 bpm)
  • Allegro moderato — moderately quick (112–124 bpm)
  • Allegretto — moderately fast (but less so than allegro)
  • Allegretto grazioso — moderately fast and gracefully
  • Moderato — moderately (108–120 bpm)
  • Moderato espressivo — moderately with expression
  • Andantino — alternatively faster or slower than andante
  • Andante Moderato — a bit faster than andante
  • Andante — at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)
  • Tranquillamente — adverb of tranquillo, "tranquilly"
  • Tranquillo — tranquil
  • Adagietto — rather slow (70–80 bpm)
  • Adagio — slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66–76 bpm)
  • Larghetto — rather broadly (60–66 bpm)
  • Grave — slow and solemn
  • Lento — very slow (40–60 bpm)
  • Lento Moderato - moderately slow
  • Largo — very slow (40–60 bpm), like lento
  • Larghissimo — very very slow (20 bpm and below)

 

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