GRADUAL PSALM
Or the stands.
Expression in the title of 15 psalms (Ps. 120-134).
So called, either because they were sung going up 15 steps that were between the women’s patio and the men’s patio, in the Temple, or because there is a certain gradation in their composition, or, (and it is the general opinion) because they were sung the pilgrims as they go up towards Jerusalem.