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Just to add to Wheat's answer, in this case, Handel is using tempo indications as modifiers:
"Andante allegro" essentially means a quicker Andante tempo - like a brisk walk.
On the other hand, "Allegro moderato" means for more restrained Allegro tempo. Beethoven would say "Allegro ma non troppo" - "Allegro, but not too much."
In this way, by assigning ...
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Metronomes, and measuring a tempo exactly in beats per minute, were not invented and put into practice until the mid-1800s. Handel lived before that time, and in his era there was no accepted way of precisely notating a tempo.
Moreover, tempos in these pieces are really only guidelines. The composer himself would vary the tempo in different performances, ...
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You might as well ask "How fast does a person walk?" You will get as many different answers as there are people.
In the case above, unless there is an actual MM value set, these can be equal or one can be faster or slower than the other.
Allegro simply means a "lively" tempo.
Andante means a "walking" tempo.
Moderato means a "moderate" tempo, or when ...
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