Editing Gradual (section)

==Book==
{{Main|Roman Gradual}}
The term "Gradual" (or ''Graduale'') also refers to certain books compiling the musical items of the Mass. 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 of the Mass|Ordinary]] and [[Proper (liturgy)|Proper]], as opposed to the [[Kyriale|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, [[Hallelujah]] and [[Tract (liturgy)|Tract]].{{ref|ref07}}