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With strength.
Printed above the staff, usually inside a heading (“Mit Kraft und Feuer”) or at a passage that should sound strong. It holds until another character word or dynamic changes the music.
Mit Kraft asks for strength: full tone, firm attack, steady drive. It is close to kräftig and to con forza, and describes a quality of sound rather than a precise level, so add f or ff. In songs it often heads hymn-like or heroic texts. Joined to Feuer it gains urgency; joined to a solemn word it stays broad.
Beethoven, Sechs Lieder, Op. 48, “Gottes Macht und Vorsehung”, voice, m. 1: the song is headed “Mit Kraft und Feuer”.
Mit Kraft 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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