graduals in English

noun
1
(in the Western Christian Church) a response sung or recited between the Epistle and Gospel in the Mass.
The chants set were Vespers responsories, Mass graduals , and alleluias, and perhaps some processional antiphons.

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1. The earliest of the five manuscripts containing the chants (three graduals and two Antiphonaries) dates from 1071, although the Roman tradition of worship can be traced

2. One century later, we are fortunate to feature in this digital presentation over fifty of our chant manuscripts (e.g., Antiphonaries, graduals, processionals, etc.) containing

3. Although each contain musical notes and scales, Antiphonals and graduals could also contain a great degree of decoration, such as depictions of saints or important events during the liturgical year

4. Of the recourse had to medieval manuscripts, the reproduction of various Antiphonaries and graduals by Père Lambillotte, by the "Plain Song and Medieval Music Society", and especially by Dom Mocquereau in the "Paléographie Musicale", founded eighteen years ago (which has already given phototypic reproductions of Antiphonaries of Einsiedeln