Music on texts of St. Francis of Assisi
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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.
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Searching for "Francis of Assisi" at hymnary.org and Sheet Music Plus would be a quick and dirty start.
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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.
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@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 -
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? -
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_lordThanked by 1CHGiffen -
https://giamusic.com/resource/illumina-le-tenebre-satb-octavo-sbmp861
Illumina le tenebre by Joan Szymko
GORGEOUS SATB setting on a prayer by St. Francis
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