Is my watch Largo or Laghetto?

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:21 pm

Is my watch Largo or Laghetto?
60 bpm kinda splits the two.
Anyone who has an opinion and shares, cheers.

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:27 pm

You mean larghetto?

When my watch is largo I'm late at work. When it's larghetto I'm too early. When my watch is largando I change the battery.
Wink

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:30 am

Larghetto sounds so hobo chic.
*wants to be a smartarse and say "Now here's some fresh sounds A la ghetto" and then play some down tune slow dirty ass blues*
"If it don't have two meanings". Why? Say them.

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:51 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:04 am

Which is where I started and why I ended up posting here.
The bit from Wiki that's important.

# Larghetto — rather broadly (60 - 66 bpm)
# Largo — Very slow (40 - 60 bpm), like lento

Now... Tight-arsed people who name things like tempos would probably agree that 60 bpm could not be both Larghetto and Largo. BUT I will take into account the lack of tight arsed clocks back when they named the tempos... I'm being semantic.

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:53 pm

Well...since I think this topic has no relevance whatsoever, I'm not sure why I'm responding, but I personally feel as though my watch at 60 BPM is allegro if assigned to a half note (such as 2/2 time) or vivace to presto if assigned to a whole note.

The first thing I do to my students' metronomes that they bring into lessons is take a black magic marker and destroy the Casio, Boss or whatever's decision about tempos. If allegro were always meant to be 120-140, Mozart would have indicated a BPM rather than a feeling.

This topic sponsored by: