Graduale

(Note) Instead of the chant, if preferred, the "Graduale" and "Tractus" may be sung "recto tono": (text sung on one note) the organ giving a series of simple chords appropriately adjusted to the reciting tone.

The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

His changes in the "Graduale" were few; in the antiphonary, many.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

"Graduale" have received the general title of "Gregorian Chant", in honour of St. Gregory the Great (590-604), to whom a widespread, very ancient, and most trustworthy tradition, supported by excellent internal and external evidence, ascribes the great work of revising and collecting into one uniform whole the various texts and chants of the liturgy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Consequently it soon became common to adapt even the larger sacramentaries to the use of priests celebrating privately by inserting in some of the "missae quotidianae votivae et diversae", or sometimes again in the "commune sanctorum" such extracts from the "Graduale", "Epistolare", and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

First came the Grallari (from the Latin "Graduale") of 1594 -- a book which maintained its position as the official Icelandic Church Book for two centuries.

The Passion-Hymns of Iceland 1879-1961 1913

Commissioned by Louis the Pious to compile a "Graduale" and antiphonary, Amalarius, a priest of Metz, found a copy of the Roman antiphonary in the monastery of Corbie, and placed in his own compilation an M when he followed the Metz antiphonary, R when he folowed the Roman, and an I C (asking Indulgence and Charity) when he followed his own ideas.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The omitted chants (styled concentus), which are to be sung by the choir, are contained in a supplementary volume called the "Graduale" or "Liber

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The work which in Metz was called "Antiphonarius" was divided into three in Rome: "What we call 'Graduale' they style

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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