Explore: Graduals (chants) Introit

complex chants are sung by trained soloists and choirs. The Graduale Romanum contains the proper chants of the Mass (i.e., Introit, Gradual, Alleluia

In Ambrosian chant and Beneventan chant, the counterpart of the Introit is called the ingressa. The Lutheran rite uses the term Introit in the same fashion

include the Dominican Gradual. The Gradual, like the Alleluia and Tract, is one of the responsorial chants of the Mass. Responsorial chants derive from early

notation. The Roman Gradual includes the Introit (entrance chant: antiphon with verses), the Gradual psalm (a meditative psalm chant, according to the 1970

primarily of a simple reciting tone. Syllabic chants have mostly one note per syllable. Neumatic chants have a small number of notes, often just two or

set to syllabic chants. Neumatic chants have multiple notes for each syllable. These are often used for short texts such as introits, and the Sanctus

proprium tropes had been written already (f. 42-46'). Introit «Probauit eum» (F-Pn lat. 909, f. 70'). Gradual «Principes populorum» V. «Elegit dominus» (F-Pn

Masses, a Gradual. Ingressae, as in the Ambrosian rite, are elaborate chants sung without psalm verses. They are analogous to the Gregorian Introit. Alleluias

family of Old Roman Graduals related to the Iustus ut palma family of Gregorian Graduals, which is named after one of the Gregorian Graduals that belongs to

CD entitled Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo. Ravi Shankar claimed that his album of Indian chants, Chants of India (1997), was conceived