The speed of music refers to how fast or slow a musical work is played or sung.

The speed of music can be divided into three categories: slow, medium and fast. Slow music is often used to express emotions such as praise, quietness, contemplation, and sadness, and is marked with Italian characters or numbers on the score; medium-tempo music is often used to express lyrical, intimate, graceful, cantabile and other emotions. The music score is marked with Italian characters or numbers; fast music is often used to express excitement, excitement, joy, liveliness and other emotions, and the music score is marked with Italian characters or numbers.