A seldom-researched area is presented: music based on Ivan Cankar's literary works. The focus will be on how many musicalisations of Cankar's texts have been produced, which composers created them and the relation between Cankar's poetry, prose and plays that have been set to music. In his search for coexistence between text and music, the Slovene composer Karol Pahor was particularly successful in his musicalisation of The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights. His Oče naš hlapca Jerneja (Our Father by the Servant Jernej) for mixed choir and in adaptations for male and youth choir is available in 13 prints and 8 manuscripts. We deal with Pahor%s musicalisation and Cankar's tales, searching for possible parallels and discrepancies between the literary and the musical works at the semantic and stylistic levels.
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