Wieder im Zeitmaß

GermanTempoPrinted in scores

Back in tempo.

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff after a ritard. or a free passage, returning to the prevailing tempo; wieder (‘again’) marks it as a return, not a new tempo. It holds until the next tempo change.

Also spelled: wieder im Zeitmass

How Composers Use It

Back in tempo — the German a tempo. Use it after a rit. or a fermata to restore the established tempo. Like a tempo it does not specify which earlier tempo if several have occurred; in that case, Erstes Tempo or a metronome mark is safer.

Example

Strauss, Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3, voice, m. 52: “wieder im Zeitmass”, a bar after a pp, in a song headed “Lebhaft”.

Related Terms

Zeitmaß A tempo Im Tempo

Wieder im Zeitmaß 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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