The word tempo is one that is used to refer to the musical time in which a work or piece of music is performed. The word tempo is precisely related to the idea of time and its origin probably comes from Italian, the language in which the first operas and works of classical music were traditionally performed. The tempo is an intrinsic characteristic of each work or each musical style, so it can be easily said that there are many tempos, each one specific to a type of musical work. The tempo is one of the essential elements when creating a musical work since it is what allows those who interpret it to know at what speed each of the notes that compose it have to be executed.
Although the concept of tempo can be used for a relatively wide variety of phenomena in which reference is made to the time that a thing or person can have, the use of it is in most cases in the musical field.
In this sense, the tempo is precisely the time or speed in which a musical work must be executed to expose its virtues with greater clarity. To indicate the tempo that a work can have, this is set at the beginning of the work, which is done in a rating of beats or sounds per minute. This calculation is the one that results in different tempos that can make a work have a completely specific profile, in addition to impacting the tempo also on the difficulty that the work will represent for those who interpret it (the fastest will be the most difficult and the most slower easier).
The tempo can give many different options, for example, scaled, larghissimo, slow, slow moderate, walking, vivacious or prestissimo. Note that all the names of these tempos are also in Italian.
