The work is in three movements, with the following tempo indications:
List of acts, scenes (tableaux) and musical numbers, along with tempo indications.
Although no tempo indications are given, this variation is often performed at great speed.
We can conjure up the cold evidence of 18th-century tempo indications.
It is in D-flat major and 3/2 time with no change in tempo indication.
In addition, the other tempo indication such as "slow & sadly" and "wind down to the end" support the blues mood.
These quartets were distinguished above all by technical command and close attention to Bartok's tempo indications.
Again, he contradicts Mahler's tempo indications, the better to bring out the music's picturesqueness.
The same applies to conductors' personal tempo indications and dynamic markings.
Since there was no tempo indication on the score, he asked the editor for some advice, only to be told that nobody had a clue.