non troppo

adverb or adjective

non trop·po ˌnän-ˈtrȯ-(ˌ)pō

ˈnōn-

: without excess

—used to qualify a direction in music

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In archival footage, the chubby young Perlman is shown dazzling Sullivan with a virtuoso performance of the Allegretto non troppo from Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. —

Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018

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