1) Book of religious chants 2) By degrees 3) Difficult to detect 4) Done bit by bit 5) Gentle 6) Gradational 7) Gradatory 8) Graduated 9) In small stages 10) Inchmeal 11) Like evolution 12) Little by little 13) Moderate 14) Not revolutionary 15) Not steep or abrupt 16) Occurring in small stages 17) Occurring little by little
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1) Choses 2) Easy 3) Gradational 4) Gradatory 5) Piecemeal 6) Slow 7) Stepwise
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The Gradual (Latin: graduale or responsorium graduale) is a chant or hymn in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations. In the Tridentine Mass it is sung after the reading or chanting of the Epistle and before the Alleluia, or, during penitential seasons, before the Tract. In the Mass of Paul VI the gradual corre...
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part of mass between epistle and gospel
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• (n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. • (n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass. • (n.) A series of steps. • (n.) An antiphon or responsory a...
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taking place by a series of small changes over a long period; not sudden.
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(from the article `Gregorian chant`) ...a psalm with a refrain sung between verses. By the 9th century it had received its present form: refrain in a neumatic style—a psalm verse in ... The main places in which responsorial chants occur are the canonical hours, or divine office, and the Alleluia and Gradual of the mass. In most cas...
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Taking place by a series of small changes over a long period, not sudden. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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Grad'u·al' ;
adjective [ Cf; French
graduel . See
Grade , and confer
Gradual ,
noun ] Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a
gradual increase o...
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Grad'u·al noun [ Late Latin
graduale a gradual (in sense 1), from Latin
gradus step: confer French
graduel . See
Grade , and confer
Grail a gradual.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) (a) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung ...
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The gradual is the psalm, anthem, or hymn, said or sung in the service of the Roman Catholic Church between the Epistle and the Gospel. It is so named from being anciently chanted on the steps of the ambo or pulpit, or of the altar. By an easy transition the name was frequently applied to the Anti-phonary, which was originally one of the three serv...
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adj] - of a topographical gradient 2. [adj] - proceeding in small stages 3. [n] - (Roman Catholic) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
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an ornate responsorial chant from the mass. It is divided into two sections, the respond and the verse. In the Middle Ages, the respond was repeated in full at the end but in modern practice the gradual is truncated after the verse. A soloist begins each section and the choir enters to conclude the section.
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noun (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
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