What are the different types of tempo?

Answer 1

Here are many different types of tempo:

• Prestissimo - extremely fast (more than 200bpm)
• Vivacissimamente - adverb of vivacissimo, "very quickly and lively"
• Vivacissimo - very fast and lively
• Presto - very fast (168-200 bpm)
• Allegrissimo - very fast
• Vivo - lively and fast
• Vivace - lively and fast (about 140 bpm)
• Allegro - fast and bright or "march tempo" (120-168 bpm)
• Allegro moderato - moderately quick (112-124 bpm)
• Allegretto - moderately fast (but less so than allegro)
• Allegretto grazioso - moderately fast and gracefully
• Moderato - moderately (108-120 bpm)
• Moderato espressivo - moderately with expression
• Andantino - alternatively faster or slower than andante
• Andante Moderato - a bit faster than andante
• Andante - at a walking pace (76-108 bpm)
• Tranquillamente - adverb of tranquillo, "tranquilly"
• Tranquillo - tranquil
• Adagietto - rather slow (70-80 bpm)
• Adagio - slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66-76 bpm)
• Larghetto - rather broadly (60-66 bpm)
• Grave - slow and solemn
• Lento - very slow (40-60 bpm)
• Lento Moderato - moderately slow
• Largo - very slow (40-60 bpm), like lento
• Larghissimo - very very slow (20 bpm and below)