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tempi

n. (plural of tempo English)

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tempo
  1. n. (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played [syn: pacing]

  2. the rate of some repeating event [syn: pace]

  3. [also: tempi (pl)]

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Tempi (municipality)

Tempi is a municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Makrychori. The municipality was named after the Vale of Tempe.

Usage examples of "tempi".

Il tuo popolo come il resto dei popoli della penisola, passato sotto le verghe dello straniero, ha perduto la gloriosa impronta di grandezza che lo distingueva ai tempi di Venier e di Dandolo.

Tradizioni sui primi tempi di Roma, i re, la rivoluzione e la guerra ai tiranni.

She needed them to pick appropriate instruments and tempi, and to build the holo track.

Though she spoke little Chinese and the conductor knew even less English, the two of them argued endlessly over tempi and other details.

In rapid tempi this is always taken as compound duple measure, a dotted quarter note having a beat.

A third method of finding tempi is through the interpretation of certain words used quite universally by composers to indicate the approximate rate of speed and the general mood of compositions.

If it gives more than 62 or 63 or less than 57 or 58 clicks per minute it will not be of much service in giving correct tempi and should be taken to a jeweller to be regulated.

Lei non crede come me, ma in questi tempi non possiamo avere tutti i medesimi principii.

This constant broadening of technical and emotional contrast must have taken Ressler years to train for: each variation is so arranged to throw off the spell of the previous, and before the ear has time enough to savor any crystallization of mood, a reaction at once pitches the listener into new tempi, meters, and melodic figures probing radically opposing kernels of feeling, pulling open the full complexity of the piece, the inexhaustible variety extracted from the modest four-by-four-by-four sarabande.

We notice immediately that musical tempi correspond to the range of bodily rhythms, most especially the heart-pulse.

Musics progressing at tempi much faster or much slower than bodily rhythms are immediately felt to be unnatural and strained.

Only on extraordinary occasions will very slow or very fast tempi accord with a human tempo.

As his confidence grew and he became absorbed in the music, the tempi became faster, the rhythms more incisive.

He felt the temptation to give in before the excitement and rush the tempi, which would only throw everyone off and spoil the performance.