non troppo

adverb or adjective

non trop·​po ˌnän-ˈtrȯ-(ˌ)pō How to pronounce non troppo (audio)
ˈnōn-
: without excess
used to qualify a direction in music

Examples of non troppo in a Sentence

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And the opening tempo was more Andante than the marked Allegro non troppo. 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

Word History

Etymology

Italian, literally, not too much

First Known Use

1804, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of non troppo was in 1804

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“Non troppo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/non%20troppo. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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