Glossary of musical terminology#U

Up tempo referred to jazz, blues and rhythm & blues at a pace that is faster than 208 BPM. 208 BPM is the fastest specification in the metronome scale. The exact BPM indication of an up - tempo songs with the help of a conventional metronome is therefore impossible.

Some musicians understood by the tempo marking up tempo instructed to play a piece as soon as possible. Musicians such as Charlie Parker served as the model. An example of a composition in the up tempo is Donna Lee (Bobby Watson, Wynton Marsalis, Wallace Roney or Stefano Di Battista, for example, play this song with about 320 BPM).

The Oxford Dictionaries define up tempo just as a music term for fast or increased pace. An example of this satellite can be considered the winner title of the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010, which is referred to as up-tempo song, which is slower than 208 BPM, and was carried forward even a ballad version of the German in the preliminary round.