Tempo is the speed or pace of a musical piece. The first two measures of Mozarts Sonata XI, which indicates the tempo as Andante grazioso and the metronome marking as = 120. (Metronome markings were not used in Mozarts day. ...
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Thus a player can be said to "lose a tempo" when taking one more move than necessary to achieve something, or to "gain a tempo" when taking only two moves to do what would have taken three by other methods, for example.
A simple example of losing a tempo may be moving a rook from a1 to a5 (see algebraic chess notation) and from there to a8; simply moving from a1 to a8 would have achieved the same result with a tempo to spare.
Gaining tempo may be achieved, for example, by developing a piece while delivering check, though here too, if the check can be countered by the development of a piece, the net result may be nil.
Mathematical tempo markings of this kind became increasingly popular during the first half of the 19th century, after the metronome had been invented, although early metronomes were somewhat unreliable; Beethoven's metronome markings, in particular, are notoriously unreliable.
The association of tempo with genre means that genres can be used to imply tempos; thus Ludwig van Beethoven wrote "In tempo d'un Menuetto" over the first movement of his Piano Sonata Op.
Because of their negative connotation, neither rush nor drag (nor their equivalents in other languages) are often used as tempo indications in scores, Mahler being a notable exception: as part of a tempo indication he used schleppend ("dragging") in the first movement of his Symphony No. 1, for example.
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