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A katolikus középkori graduálék a mise saját énekeit – proprium misse – tartalmazzák, azaz: introitus – graduale – alleluia/tractus – sequentia – offertorium – communio (bevonulási, olvasmányközi ének, alleluja vagy böjti időben traktus, majd esetleg szekvencia, felajánlási és áldozási ének). E kódexek megszokott tartalma: temporale – sanctorale, vagyis az ünnepek és liturgikus időszakok az egyházi év rendjében –, majd a szentek miseénekei. A graduálé kódexeket olykor kibővítették kyrialéval (a mise állandó részeit: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus-tételeket tartalmazó résszel), illetve alleluiariummal, sequentionaléval.

Hymnology in the 16–17th Century Reformed Church of Transylvania. The religious experience, the belief in God and in God’s power has always influenced the society. The 16th century’s reformation defined and still defines Europe’s and the world’s social, religious, political and economical aspect. There were radical changes on the fields of theology, literature, liturgy, in religious songs, printing, school system, and syllabus within it. The new teaching of the reformers needed a new form of worship which preserved some of the old elements, formed, recreated them according to his needs. This way the religious hymn in stanzas was born in people’s native language, so as the metrical psalms in native language and humanist metrical folk songs. Their Hungarian origins are the historical songs of the previous century, songs translated by Luther as German origin and the psalms propagated by Kálvin as French protestant source.