Sixteen Tons

Second Way for piano quartet (violin, viola, violoncello, piano) – Second Way per quartetto di pianoforte (violino, viola, violoncello, pianoforte) – Second Way pianokvartetille (viulu, alttoviulu, sello, piano). 

Tonal, melodic, light, delightful and easy to listen to classical music.

Read and download the Second Way sheet music (a PDF containing BOTH the full score AND all the instrument parts): https://bit.ly/SayppoSecondWayDB

ISMN 979-0-9001735-2-2 (PDF) – Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Second Way for piano quartet

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21142941

Monica Sorce (NZ), soprano, and Tapio Sayppo (FI), piano

Second song of Tapio Sayppo's Due canzoni italiane per soprano e pianoforte (Two Italian Songs for soprano and piano):

Nonna Luna – Grandmother Moon
Versi di Ribka Sibhatu – Verses by Ribka Sibhatu

Spine d'amor – Thorns of Love (this piece)
Versi di anonimo – Anonymous verses

ISMN 979-0-9001707-7-4 (PDF) – Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Due canzoni italiane per soprano e pianoforte – Two Italian Songs for soprano and piano

Spine d'amor – Thorns of Love (for soprano and piano)

Sheet Music; https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21142941

Monica Sorce (NZ), soprano, and Tapio Sayppo (FI), piano
First song of Tapio Sayppo's Due canzoni italiane per soprano e pianoforte (Two Italian Songs for soprano and piano):

Nonna Luna – Grandmother Moon (this piece)
Versi di Ribka Sibhatu – Verses by Ribka Sibhatu

Spine d'amor – Thorns of Love
Versi di anonimo – Anonymous verses

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/due-canzoni-italiane-per-soprano-e-pianoforte-two-italian-songs-for-soprano-and-piano-digital-sheet-music/21142941

ISMN 979-0-9001707-7-4 (PDF) – Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Nonna Luna – Grandmother Moon (for soprano and piano)

Classical concert and ballroom waltz for symphony orchestra

Dedicato a Marjatta Sarvanto, la sorella di compositore

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21185989

ISMN 979-0-9001735-0-8 (PDF) – Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Valzer Safin II for symphony orchestra – Valzer Safin II per orchestra sinfonica

This is one of the marches in the collection "Five wedding marches for organ" composed by Tapio Sayppo

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21146590

Wedding march no. 2 C major (for organ)

Marcha nupcial (wedding march for organ)

La farfalla fatale (wedding march for organ)

Il mare saggio (wedding march for organ)

Valzer Safin was premièred by The London Estilo String Quartet at The Manor House, Castle Combe, United Kingdom, on Friday 24 October 2014

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21142947

ISMN 979-0-9001707-1-2 (wire bound)
ISMN 979-0-9001707-2-9 (PDF)
ISMN 979-0-9001707-3-6 (DVD-ROM)
Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Valzer Safin

Valzer Safin for string quartet – Valzer Safin per quartetto d'archi

Words by Rosann Ferrier (Glenrothes, Scotland, December 2019). Music by Tapio Sayppo (Esher, England, December 2019).

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21694388

The Tour (a country song with harmonies)

A short danceable piece of music for mixed small orchestra/ensemble. This is a composition Tapio Sayppo wrote in Helsinki in 2006, commissioned by director-screenwriters Kristiina Haapasalo and Mia Ruokonen, for the comic theatre play "Dinner" they created and directed. Duration 1 minute 48 seconds.

Funny Kazakh Sword Dance – Hassu kazakstanilainen miekkatanssi

Dedicato a Galina, la donna più bella e dolce del mondo, mia moglie

Jelinia, which I wrote 2008 in Helsinki, Finland, is a chamber music composition combining various styles from contemporary to traditional for nine instruments. It describes the beauty, dramatics and tragedy of life, therefore several styles combined. The intentionally very traditional part is at the end, consolingly – not frighteningly – describing the end of life.

Jelinia's duration is about 14 minutes. The instrumentation is:

Corno inglese
Clarinetto basso in B
Fagotto
Corno in F
Violino I
Violino II
Viola
Violoncello
Contrabasso

Jelinia is based on the main theme of a beloved solo song I composed for singing voice and piano in the year 1981 in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland.

Because Jelinia contains several significant force, emotion and intensity changes, it is highly recommended that, if possible, it is listened completely from beginning to end. Thank you. :-)

ISMN 979-0-9001699-2-1 (wire bound)
ISMN 979-0-9001699-3-8 (PDF)
ISMN 979-0-9001699-4-5 (CD-ROM)
Registered internationally by The National Library of Finland, which stores quite a lot of Tapio Sayppo's music in its vast collections. Please see here: https://bit.ly/MSTS-NLOF

Tapio Säyppö

Jelinia (chamber music for 9 instruments)

"Sand Road of Home Village" – "Kotikylän hiekkatie" is a classical solo song in Finnish for bass (or alto/contralto) voice and piano.

Sheet Music; https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21873628

Kotikylän hiekkatie – Sand Road of Home Village (song for bass voice & piano)

Lyrics, music and instruments: Tapio Säyppö
Three-part singing: Camilla Ståhle
Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21940808

What this song, "The Wanderer" ("Kulkija" in Finnish), is about:

The guy has been for years and years wandering around the world, has been everywhere, feels at home anywhere. Real globetrotter. Then (s)he finally comes back to her/his country of origin and is very surprised to find out that her/his own homeland has so much to offer! Real treasures have all the time been waiting for her/him – at home! And (s)he had thought (s)he had already seen it all!

When her/his longing and homesickness finally lead her/him back to her/his country, (s)he finds these treasures (s)he didn’t know anything about! So, now that (s)he’s back, (s)he promises her/himself to explore her/his whole homeland however much time it will take.

Localising for those interested in playing and singing this song in languages other than Finnish: Please notice that this song can easily be "localised" by replacing the country name (Finland) and all the city/town names (here Finnish cities like Helsinki and Tampere) by names of any country, city and town. Same with continents.

Kulkija – The Wanderer (Finnish Country Music)

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21942601

A slightly sad tango that Tapio Sayppo wrote in Kerava, Finland, on Thursday 10 February 1994.

Tarinaltaan hieman alakuloinen tango, jonka Tapio Säyppö kirjoitti Keravalla torstaina 10.2.1994.

This guy has been singing since he was little. He grew up, his youth was left behind. He then embarked on hard, hard work, but is still lonely. The longing for love is getting bigger and bigger.

Tämä kaveri on laulanut pienestä saakka. Hän kasvoi ja varttui, nuoruus jäi taakse. Hän ryhtyi sitten kovaan, raskaaseen työhön, mutta on edelleen yksinäinen. Kaipuu rakkauteen yltyy ja yltyy.

Tämä tango on rakkauden,
tämä rytmi on meidän,
mutta koska tien löydän sen,
joka luokses’ vie?

Tämä tango on rakkauden,
mut’ kelle laulaisin?
Miksi, miksi mä pääse en
luokses’, rakkahin?

Yksinäinen – The Lonely One (tango)

Sheet Music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21942628

HUMOROUS forest, camping and wilderness song that Tapio Sayppo wrote in Kerava, Finland, in 1994-95.
HUMORISTINEN metsä-, leirintä- ja erälaulu, jonka Tapio Säyppö kirjoitti Keravalla 1994-95.

The guy has a nagging wife. He runs away to the woods with friends, repeating:
Kaverilla on nalkuttava vaimo. Hän lähtee korskeana vaimoaan karkuun metsään kavereiden kanssa toistellen:

"Mulla puoliso on aivan voittamaton,
kunhan lähelleni en häntä päästä.
Mulla puoliso on aivan voittamaton,
karkuun lähden täysin riippumatta säästä."

In the forest he is saying:
Metsässä hän sanailee:

"Sulle kelvannut en, sinä paskiainen,
älä luulekaan mieleeni jääväs’.
Sua metsässä tuoksussa neulasien
yhtään kaipaa en enkä sun läävääs’."

"Erämaassa mä vain olen onnellinen,
kun on ystävät parhaat myös täällä.
Pysy kaukana, puoliso kummallinen,
joka aina oot hirmulla päällä."

Later, however, he returns home as a humble boy, claiming that the guys FORCED him into the woods:
Myöhemmin hän kuitenkin palaa nöyränä poikana takaisin kotiin väittäen, että kaverit PAKOTTIVAT hänet metsään:

"Tuota, rakkaani, ethän sä suuttunut vaan,
enhän sulle mä tietenkään, sentään,
aivan noin tätä aikonut kertoillakaan,
ne oli kaverit, ku’ pakotti myös metsään!"

Puolisolleni – To My Wife

In the year 1990, Tapio Sayppo was commissioned to write music for the corporate video film of a Finnish mining company NNN Ltd. Tapio composed five pieces in Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland. This is one of them.

Tapio Säypöltä tilattiin vuonna 1990 Suomalaisen kaivosyhtiö NNN Oy:n yritysvideofilmin alkutunnariin sopiva tunnusmusiikki sekä itse videofilmiin sopivia muita kappeleita. Tapio kirjoitti filmiin Vantaan Myyrmäessä viisi kappaletta. Tämä on yksi niistä.

My Shaft (beat/disco)

Mining (reggae)

Drift (swing/big band)

Tapio Sayppo is a professional composer, arranger, music teacher, cantor-organist, choir conductor, bass singer, band leader and musician, information and music technology trainer & specialist, programmer, DTP and graphic designer.

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