Title: MOOMIN MUSIC
Year: 2024
Category: EDUCATION,NORDIC
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- Mika Pohjola - compositions, all arrangements
piano, melodica, conducting, production
Johanna Grüssner - all voices
Tove Jansson - lyrics
Erna Tauro - compositions
David Ambrosio - bass
Laura Arpiainen - violin
Mark Ferber - drums
Kerstin Frödin - recorder
Fernando Huergo - bass
Robert Moose - violin
MiHee Park - violin
Yusuke Yamamoto - percussion & flute
MOOMIN MUSIC
by Tove Jansson, Erna Tauro with Mika Pohjola, Johanna Grüssner
Moomin Voices Sheet Music contains the complete collection of original recording scores from the Moomin Voices album. The edition includes sheet music for all 22 songs in PDF format together with the corresponding audio recordings. The scores are the original performance materials used during the recording sessions in 2002, including those prepared for vocalist Johanna Grüssner and the accompanying ensemble.
The collection presents Erna Tauro's original settings of Tove Jansson's Moomin songs, arranged by pianist and composer Mika Pohjola. The scores document the complete Moomin Voices recording project and are published here for the first time as a digital edition.
Music plays an important role throughout Tove Jansson's Moomin stories, particularly through characters such as Snufkin, whose harmonica accompanies many of the books' memorable moments. Several songs associated with the Moomin characters were originally written for theatrical productions rather than appearing in the novels themselves.
In 1959, theatre director Vivica Bandler encouraged Tove Jansson to expand the Moomin stories with songs for the stage. Jansson collaborated with Helsinki-based composer Erna Tauro, resulting in the first collection of Moomin songs, including Moomintroll's Song, Little My's Song, and other character pieces. Additional songs were written during the 1960s and 1970s for theatre productions and Swedish Television adaptations.
Although several of these songs became widely known in the Nordic countries, the complete collection remained unpublished until Mika Pohjola recorded all of Erna Tauro's surviving Moomin songs on the Moomin Voices album in 2002-2003. Working in collaboration with Tove Jansson's heirs, he also completed and arranged material that had previously existed only in manuscript form.
The album was scored for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra, with Johanna Grüssner as featured vocalist. In 2005, the Finnish-language edition Muumilauluja was released with lyrics translated by Kirsi Kunnas and Vexi Salmi.
Both the Swedish Moomin Voices and the Finnish Muumilauluja editions, together with their accompanying sheet music, have been used as teaching material at Berklee College of Music in Boston.