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In tempo: back to the tempo after a ritardando or pause (= a tempo); also, keep strictly in time.
Printed above the staff after a ritard., a fermata or a free passage, where the main tempo resumes; it holds until the next tempo change. Capitalised as a section marking, lower-case mid-phrase. It is the German a tempo.
Schumann prints it alongside a tempo, especially in his songs, to restore the pulse after a ritard.; it can also ask a player to keep strictly in time where one might yield. Place it at the exact beat where the pulse resumes, not a beat early.
Schumann, Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127, “Mein altes Ross”, piano, m. 65: “im Tempo”, at pp, two bars after “zurückhaltend”.
Im Tempo is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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