Music on texts of St. Francis of Assisi
  • PLTT
    Posts: 188
    Since this year is the 8th centenary of the Transitus of St. Francis, I'm trying to put together a list of musical settings of texts written **by St. Francis**, for use at Mass or other liturgies/devotions. Links appreciated, especially to sheet music. Or if metrical, to the suggested hymn tune.

    As an example, I found this nice one from the Franciscan of Immaculate (unfortunately, can't locate the sheet music seen int the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgPUiPkCX8 . It is Francis' salutation to the Blessed Virgin.

  • PLTT
    Posts: 188
    Bumping this thread as various Franciscan celebrations draw closer in the hope someone my have something....
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,981
    Have you checked the Cantuale Romano-Seraphicum?
  • rich_enough
    Posts: 1,108
    Searching for "Francis of Assisi" at hymnary.org and Sheet Music Plus would be a quick and dirty start.
  • dannyboi0513
    Posts: 46
    Probably not relevance enough but there is a Polyphonic Mass setting based on themes of Franciscan litanies called "Mass in Honor of Our Lady, Queen of the Franciscan Order.
  • PLTT
    Posts: 188
    @tomjaw - yes, but as a rule it seems that the texts OF St. Francis have rarely been set to music. Usually, it is more common to find them as spoken texts (Rituale Romani-Seraphicum) - if at all. There are more texts in honour of St. Francis, but that is a bit different from what I am looking for.

    Just for reference, here you can find some of the prayers written by St. Francis:
    https://ofm.org/en/prayers.html
    https://sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf18.htm
  • Xopheros
    Posts: 153
    Just for reference, here you can find some of the prayers written by St. Francis:
    https://ofm.org/en/prayers.html
    https://sacred-texts.com/chr/wosf/wosf18.htm

    Unfortunately, the second site only has English translations and no original texts. On the first one, you can choose Italian, but does someone know whether these are indeed the original texts or whether they are transcriptions to modern Italian?
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 403
    Most High Omnipotent Good Lord
    Closer to Francis.
    The tune Assisi, is in a chant style form.
    https://hymnary.org/text/most_high_omnipotent_good_lord
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
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