''Tempo'' is a quarterly

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that specialises in

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of the 20th century and contemporary music. It was established in 1939 as the 'house magazine' of the

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Boosey & Hawkes. ''Tempo'' was the brain-child of Arnold Schoenberg's pupil

Erwin Stein Erwin Stein (7 November 188519 July 1958) was an Austrian musician and writer, prominent as a pupil and friend of Schoenberg, with whom he studied between 1906 and 1910.

, who worked for Boosey & Hawkes as a music editor. The journal's first editor was Ernest Chapman and it was intended to be a bi-monthly publication. Issues 1 to 4 appeared from January to July 1939; but owing to the outbreak of

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there was a hiatus in publication until August 1941, when issue 5 appeared, and another until February 1944, when regular publication resumed with issue 6 on a roughly quarterly basis. Meanwhile, the

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office of Boosey & Hawkes set up a separate American edition which produced six issues in 1940–1942 (numbered 1–6, independent of the UK numbering) and an unnumbered 'wartime edition' in February 1944. In 1946, the journal was enlarged and redesigned and began a new numbering: Issues 1 and 2 of the New Series were notionally issues 16 and 17 of the Old Series, but thereafter dual numbering was dropped. From the 1950s, ''Tempo'' began to cover a wider range of music than that published by Boosey. Past

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include Anthony Gishford, Donald Mitchell,

Colin Mason Colin Victor James Mason (28 October 1926 – 18 July 2020) was a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, author and politician. Mason worked for 14 years as the first foreign correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and became ...

, and David Drew. Beginning in the early 1980s, the journal was edited by Malcolm MacDonald under his journalistic alias of Calum MacDonald. MacDonald handled the transition in publisher from Boosey & Hawkes to

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. Following his retirement in January 2014, the editor became

Bob Gilmore Bob Gilmore (6 June 1961 – 2 January 2015) was a musicologist, educator and keyboard player. Born in Larne, Northern Ireland, he spent his early years in Carrickfergus. He studied music at York University, England, then at Queen's Univers ...

.Editorial. ''Tempo'' 67 (266; October 2013): 17 Since 2015, the editor has been Christopher Fox. , the journal is published by Cambridge University Press.

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