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Definition of Graduals
1. gradual [n] - See also: gradual
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graduals
Literary usage of Graduals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley (1909)
"Triumphs of Petrarch—Books at San Marco, Florence—The Brera graduals at Milan—Other
Italian collections—Examples of different localities in the British ..."
2. Henry VIII and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1902)
"At Ramsey there were " 70 breviaries; 100 .psalters, 4 hymnals, 32 graduals, 39
processionals" (B. Mus. Cott. Roll, xi., 16). And altogether, Mr. Maskell ..."
3. Henry VIII and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1890)
"Every church and chantry and chapel was supplied." At St. John the Baptist's,
Glastonbury, in 1421, there were " 3 missals, 3 graduals, 1 psalter, ..."
4. The History of Music to the Death of Schubert by John Knowles Paine (1907)
"But the German critic does not go quite so far as Burney, who maintains that
Byrd's " graduals" are "equally grave and solemn with those of Palestrina to ..."
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