What is the opposite of 'a tempo?'

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Post by Kroy » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:13 am

What is the opposite of 'a tempo' in musical notation?
In other words breaking with the tempo, at the musicians discression.
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:16 am

‘Liberamente’ comes to mind.
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Post by motet » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:24 am

z tempo?

If not liberamente, maybe tempo ad lib.?
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Post by Kroy » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:30 am

Thank you for the replies. I guess the problem might be that the reader wouldn't know what 'liberamente' or 'z tempo' means so 'tempo ad lib' might be the best choice.
I tried googling an answer to this and (surprisingly), there's no information that I can find which seems strange because if you have 'a tempo' surely there needs to be an opposite to that..
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Post by oldmkvi » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:30 am

Tempo Ad-lib.
A Piacere.
Go nuts, etc.
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Post by Kroy » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:31 am

Haha, go nuts. Well this is a Led Zeppelin song I'm scoring so maybe that's the one!
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Post by Kroy » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:34 am

Ah, I think Rubato is what i'm looking for..
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Post by Kroy » Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:36 am

This was helpful - A piacere got me there..
https://musicterms.artopium.com/a/Apiacere.htm
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