I’ve had the chance to play this mass at our new parish for a while now and I think I have the hang of it now. The backings I made for it here are pretty average and the Sanctus is much too fast in my backing so just ignore that.
The music is rather subtle and I like playing it on guitar because it has lots of interesting chords and rhythmic invention. Its weakness may be that it can get stomped all over by an assembly and lose all its nuance. Perhaps this is a mass for small assemblies and minimal accompaniment.
I think these backings for the Gloria and Holy Holy are less terrible.
I am so grateful to have access to a recording of Holy Holy Holy. I’m a cantor but I can NEVER seem to remember how it goes! It’s a relief to go to my bookmark and simply play the tune. It comes back right away, of course.
I love the guitar playing so much better than the organ. We use the piano often, too. It flows so beautifully.
Thank you for recording the mass here. I appreciate it tremendously.
You are welcome, Barbara.
Geoff
You can also find a recording of this Mass here.
http://www.cam.org.au/evangelisation/missal/Multimedia.aspx
Hi Geoff,
I’ve just learned that we are doing the Mass of St Francis at Mass this weekend. No-one seems to have any chord charts (I play guitar). Do you happen to have any for all the parts of the Mass or know where they can be obtained?
Thanks for taking the time to record and upload these
Regards,
Marc
Did your parish just buy a keyboard edition? – that’s a bit rich. Perhaps suggest the keyboard players do Mass until the guitar edition is purchased.
It’s available from AOV:
http://www.willowconnection.com.au/as-one-voice-liturgical-series-mass-settings/mass-of-st-francis/mass-of-st-francis-music-accompaniment
And this snippet from Liturgy Brisbane tells you who elese to order it from:
Mass of St Francis by Paul Taylor – Publisher: Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation; sheet music from Central Catholic Bookshop (03) 9639 0844 and free recording found under Changes on the Melbourne Archdiocesan site http://www.evangelisation.org/missal, available for purchase 1 January 2011.
The melody line is a free download here but that’s little help for chords
http://www.cam.org.au/evangelisation/missal/Multimedia.aspx
It is probably still available in Catholic bookshops.
Geoff
I want to buy Mass of St Francis Guitar version.
I want to play for choit singing but do not know much.
Could you help
I was wondering if the Mass of Saint Francis by Paul Taylor is still available in mp3 format to download? I would like to upload it to my mp3 player.
Thanks.
G’Day Peter
There used to be MP3 downloads at this site:
http://www.cam.org.au/evangelisation/
…but there are no longer there. You could always contact them and ask if they are still accessible.
There are some tracks on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdebhdQ0tA
For copyright reasons I had to take all the download links for my backings down.
Remember it’s always worth trying to track down the author, Paul Taylor in this case.
cheers
Geoff
Hi Geoffrey
How are you, just want to say Hello to you.
I like all the midi and mp3 that you share to me and up to now we are still playing them, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Cheers
Rex Urbano
The FRIENDS FILIPINO Choir
OLOF Acacia Ridge, St James Coorparoo, Canossa Oxley and St Francis Xavier Goodna
G’Day Rex
Lovely to hear from you again. Just let me know if if I can ever help out. The one time I was lucky enough to play with your group I was made so welcome.
cheers
Geoff