Presto

very fast, 168–200

Presto lies between 168 and 200 beats per minute; the metronome starts in the middle, and the tempo can be changed there.

What it means

Faster than allegro. Presto demands clarity in spite of speed: what can no longer be heard is too fast.

Photograph a page of sheet music or play the melody — Anotona finds the key, engraves the notes and transposes them into any other. Free.

Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.