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A funeral procession, a cortège. "Wie ein Kondukt" asks for its slow, heavy, even tread.
Part of a character heading, as in Mahler 5 i’s “Streng. Wie ein Kondukt.”, printed with the tempo words above the system; it colours the whole section rather than a single bar.
An image rather than an instruction: it asks for the even, heavy tread and solemnity of a funeral cortège. It sits naturally beside a measured tempo word (gemessen, streng) and a march rhythm.
Kondukt is one of 1760 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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