Is there a settings for global tempo? I can't find it.

• Feb 9, 2025 - 09:52

I use the tempo mark to make it 100 bpm. The “a tempo” mark restores the original speed. But I exported the musicxml. I found that the “a tempo” restores to 120 bpm.
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• Feb 9, 2025 - 09:55

120 BPM is the default tempo, in absence of any (other) tempo marking.

If MusicXML export doesn't restore the previous tempo on an "a tempo" (while in MuseScore itself it does) that'd be a bug and should get reported on GitHub

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• Feb 9, 2025 - 10:07

Probable culprit is that the export of the "rit," doesn't export its tempo settings (and I don't think MusicXML has means to do that), the " a tempo" restores the tempo before the 100BPM, which is 120

And indeed importing such a MusicXML shows that the "rit." doesn't have any tempo settings

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• Feb 9, 2025 - 10:16

On MusicXML export this gets generated:

      <direction placement="above" system="only-top">
        <direction-type>
          <words>rit.</words>
          </direction-type>
        <direction-type>
          <dashes type="start" number="1"/>
          </direction-type>
        </direction>
 

No tempo settings in sight, so none in import either.
The latter could get faked by applying the same default settings at if manually applying a "rit." from the palette, but that'd be nothing but a fake and probably the wrong thing to do quite often.

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• Feb 9, 2025 - 10:05

If you export to musicxml, I can confirm this.

Firstly, you have no ritardando and secondly, it continues at the standard speed, i.e. 120 bpm.

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