I was overviewing some classical sheet music and saw this strange tempo marking. What does "Tempo 10" mean exactly?
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Edouard has answered this in 'What is tempo 1?', so it's probably construable as a dupe.– TimCommented May 1, 2023 at 15:03
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@tim you mean this question ? music.stackexchange.com/questions/20573/what-is-tempo-1 ?– CriggieCommented May 2, 2023 at 3:49
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Feeling very sad that anyone would interpret that text as "10" .– Carl WitthoftCommented May 3, 2023 at 16:41
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This is a kind of shortcut for tempo primo. You probably had something like a tempo change in recent bars and are now supposed to fall back to the earlier tempo. (So the 1° actually is the counterpart of English 1st).
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4Also for more details on that notation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator– LazyCommented May 1, 2023 at 16:51