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How is fließend aber nicht zu schnell played?
Keep line and pulse moving continuously, but hold the tempo below the point where detail, weight or the intended character begins to rush. Fließend asks for continuity and mobility; aber nicht zu schnell sets an explicit upper constraint without supplying a number. Both halves must remain audible: the limit must not turn into stiffness or dragging, and flow must not become uncontrolled speed. Judge the ceiling from the movement, metre, texture and acoustics, and maintain the fluid, controlled state until another tempo or character instruction.
How does fließend aber nicht zu schnell sound?
Fluid and controlled, never rushed.
Fließend, aber nicht zu schnell combines two relative ideas at once: fließend asks for smoothness of motion, and aber nicht zu schnell puts an unspecified ceiling on it, not too fast for this passage, whatever that turns out to mean here. Both halves are defined by context, so the phrase as a whole was never going to resolve into one number.
In context
The official Gustav Mahler Works catalogue records the Third Movement of Symphony No. 7 as Schattenhaft. Fließend, aber nicht zu schnell. The Mahler performance lexicon defines fließend as flowing or fluent, and critical-edition material preserves the not-too-fast qualification as a separate instruction. The phrase therefore combines two contextual ideas rather than resolving into a BPM: continuous motion plus an upper speed limit. No stable general abbreviation was established, so the full wording remains essential.