non troppo
adverb or adjective
non trop·po
ˌnän-ˈtrȯ-(ˌ)pō 
ˈnōn-
: without excess
—used to qualify a direction in music
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And the opening tempo was more Andante than the marked Allegro non troppo.
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Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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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Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
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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“Non troppo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non%20troppo. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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