tempi

How to use tempi in a sentence

• The tempi were all too fast, so that one could scarcely distinguish the three notes one from the other.

  The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky

• Unfortunately, at the express desire of the Prince, almost all the tempi were taken too quick, and thereby much spoiled.

  Louis Spohr's Autobiography | Louis Spohr

• Up in the top story hurrying drips beat, like metronomes, all the tempi, from a ponderous adagio to a racing prestissimo.

  Mount Music | E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

• It instantly recalls the tempi Madonna of Raphael, both in the pose of the figure and in the genuineness of feeling exhibited.

  The Madonna in Art | Estelle M. Hurll

• Moreover, when it happened that Beethoven metronomed the same work twice over, he marked the tempi differently each time.

  Life of Beethoven | Anton Schindler