How it works
A vivace metronome clicks between 156 and 176 beats a minute, the figures in Wikipedia's list of common tempo markings. The list gives the word as lively and fast and warns that its numbers are very rough approximations.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space, for a quick click at 166. One more tap and it stops.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type a tempo, or use minus and plus. Three settings of the usual wind-up scale fall in this range, 160, 168 and 176, going by the arrangement Wikipedia's Metronome article calls the most common.
Questions and answers
What metronome marking is vivace?
As a number, 156 to 176 BPM: Wikipedia's list of common tempo markings and its Metronome article give the same two figures. Both add that a tempo word is more than a speed: vivace also asks for a lively character, which no number can give.
Where does vivace sit between allegro and presto?
Just above Allegro, which the list ends at 156, the number Vivace starts on. Presto, very fast, begins at 168 and goes to 200, so the two overlap from 168 to 176. Vivacissimo and Allegrissimo keep to the top: 172 to 176.
Why is a vivace in a score marked 104 or 116?
The mark counts a longer note. Wikipedia prints the Vivace of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, in 6/8, at dotted quarter = 104 and his Ninth's Molto vivace, in 3/4, at dotted half = 116: by our sum 312 eighth notes and 348 quarter notes a minute.
Is allegro vivace faster than vivace?
No: vivace is its ceiling. The list reads Molto allegro or Allegro vivace as a livelier, slightly quicker allegro and gives it 124 to 156, so its fastest tempo is the slowest one in this page's range.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
Check the phone's ring switch, the volume and whether Bluetooth has the sound, in that order. If all three are fine the beat can still be watched: the pad's two dots change places at the tempo.