metronomical

A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry ...

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

If a Beethoven symphony or a Bach fugue be played with metronomical rigidity it loses its quintessential flavor.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

You ask me also for a few metronomical indications of the tempo.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

If you will do me a service, dear friend, send me, if possible by return of post, some metronomical indications for the introduction and several other important pieces, the duet between Lohengrin and Elsa in the third act amongst others.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

This song is a real crowd pleaser, its metronomical rhythm perfectly suited to the live arena.

oceans never listen 2009

Your metronomical indications I naturally accepted as my rule, which formerly I had not been able to do ” 69 for the song of "Tannhauser," 70 or thereabouts for the D major passage of Wolfram, etc.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888