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▪ I. tempo|ˈtɛmpəʊ|
Pl. tempi |ˈtɛmpiː|, tempos.
[It.,:—L. tempus time.]
1. a. Mus. Relative speed or rate of movement; pace; time; spec. the proper or characteristic speed and rhythm of a dance or other tune (in phr. ‖ tempo di gavotta, tempo di marcia, tempo di minuetto, etc.).
tempo giusto |ˈdʒuːstəʊ|, strict time; the proper speed that a style of music demands. tempo primo, first or former time; a direction to resume the original speed after an alteration of it. tempo rubato, ‘robbed or stolen time; time occasionally slackened or hastened for the purposes of expression’ (Stainer & Barrett).
1724Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Tempo, Time. Thus, Tempo Di Gavotta, is Gavot Time, or the Time or Movement observed in playing a Gavot. Tempo Di Minuetto,..Tempo Di Sarabanda. 1740Grassineau Mus. Dict. 283 Tempo, or Tempo giusto, is often met with after Recitatives, and intimates that the Time be beat equal, which during that recitative was managed otherwise. 1773C. Burney Present State of Mus. in Germany II. 175 It was from her that Quantz first heard what professors call tempo rubato. 1810D. Corri Singers Preceptor I. 6 Tempo rubato is a detraction of part of the time from one note, and restoring it by increasing the length of another. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iv. iv, In his hurry he got the tempo about twice too slow. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. ii. 63 They sing in a more subdued tone; the tempo is slower. 1884F. Taylor in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 82 Verbal directions as to tempo are generally written in Italian. 1886G. M. Hopkins Let. 11 Dec. (1935) I. 246 This sonnet shd. be almost sung: it is most carefully timed in tempo rubato. 1888Athenæum 17 Mar. 349/1 The composer has reconsidered the tempi of some portions..; he also indulged..in the tempo rubato. 1931M. D. Calvocoressi tr. Bartok's Hungarian Folk Music 23 A few tunes in tempo giusto. Ibid. 80 In fairly old tunes..a liking for variable tempo giusto rhythm is evinced. 1934Webster, Tempo, n.; pl. tempi.., tempos. 1956R. C. Marsh Toscanini ii. 83 The earlier performance being somewhat more relaxed and containing some tempo rubato that the version of thirty years later lacks. 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in England iv. 312 The group refrains..were always sung plain and in a strict tempo giusto. 1980Times 13 May 15/3 Tempos were excellently chosen, most of all perhaps, for the Minuet.
b. transf. and fig. The rate of motion or activity (of someone or something).
1898G. B. Shaw You never can Tell ii. 249 Again changing his tempo to say to Valentine..If youll allow me, sir? 1901Cassell's Mag. Sept. 388/2 His tempo, to use the expression of our acrobats, is perfect—that is to say, he yields at the proper time and at the proper rate to the descending ball. 1918A. Gray tr. Grelling's Crime II. 239 He describes their readiness ‘to retard the tempo of the construction of our warships’. 1925C. Fox Educ. Psychol. 271 Each person is possessed of a vital tempo. 1930W. K. Hancock Australia vii. 139 The State might not have achieved as much if it had been content..to quicken the tempo of the economic harmonies—by taxing, by disseminating knowledge, by mobilising credit. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet 219 But when he stood in the door again, save for the slightly increased rasp and tempo of his breathing, he might never have left it. 1961A. Christie Pale Horse xviii. 198 It's a changing world, Easterbrook... Now the changes come more rapidly. The tempo has quickened. 1974I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 202 The partner who created the confidence and set the tempo was Luca.
†2. A term in fencing: see quot. Obs. rare.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 159/2 A Tempo, is to take heed neuer to make a thrust or blow at aduersarie, without thou hast a faire opportunity to hit, or within measure, that he be within thy reach.
▪ II. ‖ tempo, n.2 Now Hist.|ˈtɛmpəʊ|
Also tenpo.
[Jap., f. Tempo or Tenpo, the name given to the period 1830–44.]
An oval-shaped bronze coin of Japan, with a square hole in its centre, first minted in 1835. Occas. in fuller form tempo-tsuho (lit. ‘current treasure of the Tempo’).
1860R. H. Dana Jrnl. 11 Apr. (1968) III. 1010 They have a copper coin, flat, of an oval shape..with a square hole in the middle. This is the tempo, sixteen tempo go to the ichibu, which makes it about two cents. 1875Colburn's United Service Mag. iii. 11 You offer the boatman his fare—not a bit of it. ‘Pay Custom-House,’ he says; and flinging the honest fellow a few tempos, you hand over to the exchequer of Japan the sum of two-pence as you pass the office at the end of the quay. 1904N. G. Munro Coins of Japan iv. 148 Ten-Ho Tsu-Ho (pronounced Tempo Tsuho). This coin was first made at Hashiba, Tokyo, or Yedo..by order of the Tokugawa government. 1917Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics 1916 L. 238/1 Tempo, an oblong bronze coin of Japan..of the value of one hundred Mon or Sen... Many Japanese coins and fanciful pieces are known as Tempo shaped. 1953Jacobs & Vermeule Jap. Coinage ii. 90 The Kanei-tsuho, tempo-tsuho, and the bunkyo-eiho continued to circulate as a medium of exchange below the value of one sen, the value varying with the coin and metal, until close to the end of the nineteenth century. |