Sheet Music Downloads by Mårten Jansson

An Elemental Elegy was commissioned by the globally acclaimed ensemble voces8 for their CD "After Silence", which will be released in July 2020 to mark the ensemble's 15th anniversary. Mårten Jansson...

As the name suggests, the 'Missa Popularis' has its musical roots in folk music. This becomes clear in the very first bars of the Kyrie, where the violin plays amelody in the style of a Swedish folk t...

In most mass compositions, the text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central. It was published for the first time at the Council of Nicaea in 325 – 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed...

Another collaboration between Mårten Jansson and the Swedish poet Einar Askestad is Ingenting utanför/Nothing Beyond. The a cappella work deals with the themes of grief and loss. After a powerful, lam...

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...

Tonight I Dance Alone for double choir a cappella is about three short scenes from the life of an old man. We meet him before his wedding, before the celebration of his wedding day and as an old widow...

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...

The text that will be celebrated in 2025 is central to most mass compositions. It was first published at the Council of Nicaea in 325 - 1700 years ago. The final form of the Nicene Creed is the only c...

The setting of the well-known psalm Sing unto the Lord a new song (Psalm 96, 1-3) uses strong dynamics and an alternation of flowing, block-like chords with faster polyphonic passages to interpret the...

I Never Saw a Moor (Based on a text by Emily Dickinson): The composition expresses the unshakeable trust in God and thus the central message of Emily Dickinson's poem. The music describes feelings of...

The Swedish royal family commissioned this work for the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The text was written by the Swedish poet Einar Askestad (premiere on March 17, 2013). The music de...

The Choirmaster's Burial is an onomatopoeic retelling of Thomas Hardy's classic poem about an old tenor who mourns the death of his choirmaster. Women and men are divided into two choirs. While the me...

The setting of the well-known psalm Sing unto the Lord a new song (Psalm 96, 1-3) uses strong dynamics and an alternation of flowing, block-like chords with faster polyphonic passages to interpret the...

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...

Stillae was commissioned by the Dortmund Choir Academy's youth concert choir, which won first prize in the 2018 Mårten Jansson Choir Competition. The text is by the American poet Charles Anthony Silve...

Fear Thou Not was commissioned by the award-winning Swedish female vocal ensemble Les Jolies. The piece describes how one can move from doubt to faith through the voice of God, which is both admonishi...

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...

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...