Presto (music)

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presto (Italian; "fast"; French vite ) is a musical performance designation that prescribes a fast to very fast tempo . With vivacissimo, Presto is one of the fastest musical tempos of all and is only occasionally attempted to increase with the tempo designation prestissimo (e.g. in some works by Beethoven ), "extremely fast". A typical piece composed in Presto is Aram Khachaturjan's saber dance .

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  1. ↑ Wieland Ziegenrücker: General music theory with questions and tasks for self-control. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1977; Paperback edition: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, and music publisher B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3 , p. 55: "(very) fast".