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In different musical contexts, different instrumental musicians, singers, conductors, bandleaders, music directors or other individuals will select the tempo of a song or piece. In a popular music or traditional music group or band, the bandleader or drummer may select the tempo. In popular and traditional music, whoever is setting the tempo ...
In strict tempo at a marching pace (e.g. 120 BPM) Allargando: broadening: Slowing down and broadening; becoming more stately and majestic, possibly louder Allegro: joyful; lively and fast: Joyful; moderately fast tempo Allegretto: a little bit joyful: Slightly less joyful than allegro (so slightly slower tempo) Andante: walking
In time (i.e. the performer should return to the stable tempo, such as after an accelerando or ritardando); also may be found in combination with other terms such as a tempo giusto (in strict time) or a tempo di menuetto (at the speed of a minuet) ab (Ger.) off, organ stops or mutes abafando (Port.) muffled, muted abandon or avec (Fr.)
Song, Op. 7 Syncopation: 1926 Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3: 1910 Tempo di Minuetto in the style of Pugnani: 1938: falsely attributed to Gaetano Pugnani: Toy Soldier's March: 1917 Variations on a Theme by Corelli in the style of Tartini: 1910: falsely attributed to Giuseppe Tartini: Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta: 1948
The composer and music theorist Johann Kirnberger (1776) formalized and refined this idea by instructing the performer to consider the following details in combination when determining the best performance tempo of a piece: the tempo giusto of the meter, the tempo term (Allegro, Adagio, etc., if there is one, at the start of the piece), the ...
Because of the constant singing of eighth notes in 6 8 meter at an allegro vivace tempo, the piece is often noted as one of the most difficult baritone arias to perform. [1] This, along with the tongue-twisting nature of some of the lines, insisting on Italian superlatives (always ending in "-issimo"), have made it a pièce de résistance in which a skilled baritone has the chance to highlight ...
III. Allegro agitato; Overture to Strike Up the Band (1927/revised 1930), the longest and most complex of the overtures for Gershwin's broadway shows, several sections are polytonal/atonal; March from Strike Up the Band (1927) is a very popular musical interlude from the 1927 stage musical of the same title.
Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.