Tempo ordinario
Tempo ordinario ( ital. "Usual measure, usual tempo"), also tempo minore , ( tempo ) alla semibreve denotes the 4 ⁄ 4 -time and the usual normal tempo, i.e. the tempo that is considered normal in the absence of a certain tempo regulation . In the baroque period this was a calm to slow pace.
A music lexicon from 1865 defines the tempo ordinario as: “... the regular four-quarter measure 
with the semibrevis as a measure unit, thus containing four quarters, which are measured (not diminished ) according to their real value or integer valor , so the movement of the measure is calm and moderate is. The tempo maggiore or alla breve is the four-part diminished measure , the brevis is the unit of measure; it contains two whole notes or four half notes, but the movement is twice as fast ( diminutio simplex ); all notes receive only half of their actual valor, so its movement is the same as in the tempo ordinario , regardless of its notes are twice as large. "
Walther writes about the meaning of the symbol, which is actually a semicircle: “… means a measure consisting of either four fast or slow parts, after namely allegro or adagio dabey; is nothing but noted down dabey, it is always adagio understood under it, and if a slow scale, which the Italians tempo ordinario and tempo alla Semibreve call. "
References and comments
- ↑ The semibrevis corresponds to today's whole grade. The brevis is twice as long.
- ^ Arrey von Dommer: HC Koch's Musical Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Academic Verklagsbuchhandlung von JCB Mohr, Heidelberg 1865, p. 831 .
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Walther : Musical Lexicon . Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, p. 123 .