As the culture of western music effectively transported itself from Italy, it's no surprise that many of the classical terms used to describe tempo and speed in music are descriptive in nature.

Tempo means the speed at which a piece of music should be played. As with many other musical terms, Italian words are used to describe different tempos of music. The tempo is written above the ...

While previous research suggested that calming or relaxing music works best, the McGill team wanted to dig deeper. “We wanted to investigate whether tempo — the speed of a musical piece ...

We can use different words to describe music we play or listen to. Tempo is the speed of music. For example, music can be slow or fast. The pulse of the music controls the tempo.

Secondly, most commercial recorded music (eg what we hear on the radio) tends to be around 115-125 BPM, meaning that we’re conditioned to prefer this narrow tempo range. When you’re using it ...

It’s Lindsay’s editor, Caryn, here to kick off a round of guest newsletters with around 19 minutes of upbeat music from March. (If you missed Friday’s newsletter celebrating The Amplifier’s second ...

Other apps have similar functionality that I’ve covered before, but what makes Perfect Tempo unique is that it can slow down and speed up streamed Apple Music tracks, which other apps can’t do. When ...