Mårten Jansson: Intermediate Sheet Music

I asked my friend, the poet Einar Askestad, if he could write a poem for me about love between father and son, brothers and God. I felt that these forms of love are seldom sung about. The poem moved m...

A friend, the Swedish poet Einar Askestad, wrote a poem at my request about the love between father and son, brothers and God. This form of love is rarely sung about. The poem moved me deeply and I tr...

The Missa brevis in E flat minor for mixed choir cappella is in the tradition of the short mass (without Credo). It can be easily mastered by most choirs. Its concise brevity makes it suitable for use...

The two poems "Triptyk" (Triptych) and "Mörkblå tillit" (Dark Blue Trust) were written by the poet and hospital chaplain Kerstin Dillmar. "Triptyk" is an inner journey in three parts, so to speak - wi...

Mårten Jansson has made a name for himself internationally with his masses in particular. The Missa brevis in E flat minor and the Missa Popularis appear regularly in concert programs. The new Missa B...

From Mårten Jansson's Requiem Novum, this work for unaccompanied SATB voices offers a moment of peace and reflection. This is a study of excellence in part-writing with its beautiful melody rising abo...

De sancto Pelagio et sancto Theodolo is a transcription of a work for choir and large orchestra. It was commissioned by the Knabenkantorei Basel. The texts come from the Cantionale chants of the last...

'De sancto Pelagio et sancto Theodolo' is a transcription of a composition originally conceived for choir and large orchestra. The texts, which stem from the liturgical chants 'Cantionale' by Thomas K...

I have embedded this internationally well-known melody in a harmonic room of bells which is rendered by the male voices. To enhance the feeling of two independent entities, the melody and the bell ost...

The melody of the world-famous Christmas carol is embedded in a sound space full of bells in the male voices. The independence of these two levels is emphasized by the fact that they are sung in diffe...

This wonderful carol melody is sung by the altos and is accompanied by an ostinato 'motor' in the male voices. The soprano part moves independently and comments, so to speak, on themelodic happenings.

Over a kind of ostinato motor in the male voices, the wonderful melody of this song is heard throughout in the alto. The independently led soprano comments, as it were, on the melodic events. I make m...