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Not too brisk.
Printed as a heading above the first bar, or after a character word (Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch, Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch); it holds until the next tempo word. Schoenberg pairs it with a metronome figure in parentheses.
A quick tempo with a brake on it: rasch carries a sense of briskness that nicht zu tempers, so the music keeps its spring without hurrying. Schumann uses it where an inward character must survive a lively pulse. It sits close to nicht zu schnell; choose rasch when lightness of motion matters more than raw speed.
Schumann, Dichterliebe, Op. 48, No. 9, “Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen”, voice, m. 1: “Nicht zu rasch.” heads the song.
Nicht zu rasch 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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