Même mouvement

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff at a point where something on the page changes — a new metre, a new section, a different figuration — to confirm that the tempo does not. It applies at that point; the tempo then runs on until the next tempo word. Abbreviated Même mouvt.

Abbreviations: Même mouvt.

Also spelled: meme mouvement

How Composers Use It

The French l’istesso tempo. Write it wherever a performer might expect a change: after a double bar, at a new key or texture, or where the beat unit changes. In music with frequent tempo changes it is also the clearest way to say that a new idea arrives at the same speed.

Example

Ravel, Miroirs No. 4, “Alborada del gracioso”, piano, m. 126: “Même mouvement”, printed with “simile” in the same bar.

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