tempo

Lost perdu to time: irregular, (tem'-po per-doo'-to) It. unsteady time. of three divisions of mensurable tempo primiero (tem'-po pre-mi-a'-ro) music. Modus was a division of a See tempo primo. maxim, then the longest note used, tempo primo (tem'-po pre'-mo) It. into longs, equal to half a maxim and First time: after a change of tempo the division of longs into breves, equal a direction meaning to return to the to half longs. Tempus was the divi original time in which the piece is sion of breves into semibreves, a written. t. p. Abbr. tem. 1°., tempo prim., semibreve being equivalent in modern music to a whole note,