Tempo means the speed at which a piece of music should be played. As with many other musical terms, Italian words are used to describe different tempos of music. The tempo is written above the ...

Tempo and stylistic feel are often indicated in classical music by Italian terminology. This is a video about tempo and the Italian terminology used to describe it.

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Secondly, most commercial recorded music (eg what we hear on the radio) tends to be around 115-125 BPM, meaning that we’re conditioned to prefer this narrow tempo range. When you’re using it ...

Levitin: That’s what people in my field are trying to figure out. What is it about the music? Is it the tempo? Is it the rhythm? The pitch or the harmony? Well, it’s not any one of those things.

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while chaotic and up-tempo music tends to have the opposite effect. But all of this is subjective. Levitin says he’s encountered people who have said that AC/DC is their relaxation music.

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When you’re new to running, you might hear other runners toss around the term “tempo run” and have no blessed idea what they’re talking about. Even if you’ve been running for awhile now ...

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