Liber Usualis - Graduale Romanum (Roman Gradual) – Gregorian Chant

 This Graduale Romanum is in a very VERY good condition. It was printed in 1957 and has some 1,000 pages. The ribons are still intact.

The Gradual (Latin: Graduale) is a book collecting all the musical items of the Mass. The official such book for the Roman Rite is the Roman Gradual (in Latin, Graduale Romanum). Generally speaking, the Graduale Romanum has the same context as the Liber Usualis but without the written texts of the Epistle and Gospel.

A Gradual is generally distinguished from the Missal by omitting the spoken items, and including the music for the sung parts. It includes both the Ordinary and Proper, as opposed to the Kyrial, which includes only the Ordinary, and the Cantatory, which includes only the responsorial chants.

Originally the book was called an antiphonale missarum ("Antiphonal of the Mass"). Graduals, like the later Cantatory, may have originally included only the responsorial items, the Gradual, Alleluia, and Tract.