Frankfort?

[BVM_1221]

For those of you who pray the Divine Office by yourself (as I do) may sometimes have a hard time finding an appropiate tune for the hymns. Like today. I use the Large Print Edition of the LOTH, which does not have hymn tunes in the back.

And todays OOR hymn has a meter of 887.887.48.48 with the name of “Frankfort”. I was unable to find a hymn tune of this name with a GOGGLE search. However, the meter is also that of the very well known hymn tune “How Brightly Shines The Morning Star”. Use that one:thumbsup:

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

There are a couple of hymn tunes that were at one time called Frankfort. One you have already mentioned: “Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern” (God’s Holy Mountain We Ascend, How Brightly Shines the Morning Star): ccel.org/cceh/0009/000920a.mid. The other was called “Frankfort Tune” but renamed “Plymouth” and is also called “Pleading Saviour” (Sing of Mary) ccel.org/cceh/0006/000663a.mid As you will notice, they don’t share the same meter. Something tells me, however, that there is another Frankfort. There may also be a Frankfurt, since there are two towns called Frankfurt in Germany and one Frankfort in Kentucky.

My gripe about the current four-volume breviary (which has no printed music in most versions) is that in an effort to be modern, they filled it with hymns written around the early seventies which are rarely printed in most hymnals today. They had a particular love for the artistic but unsingable creations of the late French Spiritan priest, Fr. Lucien Deiss.

 

[BVM_1221]

There are a couple of hymn tunes that were at one time called Frankfort. One you have already mentioned: “Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern” (God’s Holy Mountain We Ascend, How Brightly Shines the Morning Star): ccel.org/cceh/0009/000920a.mid. The other was called “Frankfort Tune” but renamed “Plymouth” and is also called “Pleading Saviour” (Sing of Mary) ccel.org/cceh/0006/000663a.mid As you will notice, they don’t share the same meter. Something tells me, however, that there is another Frankfort. There may also be a Frankfurt, since there are two towns called Frankfurt in Germany and one Frankfort in Kentucky.

My gripe about the current four-volume breviary (which has no printed music in most versions) is that in an effort to be modern, they filled it with hymns written around the early seventies which are rarely printed in most hymnals today. They had a particular love for the artistic but unsingable creations of the late French Spiritan priest, Fr. Lucien Deiss.

Thank you for the information. And I fully agree about Fr. Lucien Deiss. I will admit that lots of times I ignore the suggested hymns in LOTH and sing the hymns for that day that are in the MAGNIFICAT magazine.:harp: