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Andante, but not too much so. Because andante literally means “going”, readers differ on whether it warns against too slow a pace or too flowing a one; context and any metronome mark decide.
Printed above the first system as a heading, over voice and accompaniment alike in songs, and in force until the next tempo word. The ma non troppo is part of the heading and lasts exactly as long as the Andante does.
This is one of the most ambiguous compound headings, because non troppo modifies a word that itself names motion: performers read it both as “do not drag” and as “do not hurry”. The safe course is to make your intention explicit with a metronome mark, or to choose a word that leaves no doubt — Andante con moto if you fear sluggishness, Andante sostenuto if you fear haste.
Bizet, 20 Mélodies, Op. 21, “La chanson du fou”, voice and piano, m. 1: “Andante ma non troppo”, with pp two bars later.
Andante ma non troppo is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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