graduals

Mass response songs

Graduals is an infrequent plural of the noun gradual, which is a book of music used in a religious service, or a particular hymn or chant in such a service.

liturgical

chant

Repetitive rhythmic phrase

  • antiphonAlternating liturgical song
  • MassCatholic worship service
  • psalmSacred scriptural song

Gregorian · choir · alleluia · introit · plainchant · cantor · liturgy · breviary · hymnal · vespers

musical

steps

Sequential actions in process

ascending · descending · degrees · tones · semitones · chromatic · diatonic · melodic · sequential · incremental

Categories
Opposites
position in mass liturgy

gradualsoffertories

Worship service donations

communions · Kyrie · Gloria · tracts · alleluias

musical complexity/melismatic style

gradualsantiphons

Alternating sacred chants

hymns

liturgical book type

gradualshymnals

Worship songbook compilations

missals · breviaries · processionals

Phrases
Family

gradual, gradually, gradualness, graduate, graduates, graduated, graduating, graduation, graduations

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G