Moomin Opening Theme Song (English)
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The opening theme song from the English dub of the Moomin anime from the early 90s.
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The Moomins Episode 1 Hobgoblin's Hat
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- Published: 23 Sep 2008
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- Duration: 2:10
- Published: 18 Aug 2010
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Moomins and the Comet Chase Trailer in 2D
The Moomins
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- Duration: 0:37
- Published: 15 Dec 2008
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opening credits
Moomin 26: The Lady of the Cold
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 16 Feb 2008
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Moomin - Watermelon [Aim]
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Moomin — Spare Time EP aim-vinyl.com Video by the29nov films
MOOMIN「陽炎」PV
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MOOMIN NEW ALBUM「SOWAKA」5/23 RELEASE!
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
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- Published: 24 Sep 2009
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Trailer for the film Moomin and Midsummer Madness (2008). Visit: www.moominandmidsummermadness.com Directed by Maria Lindberg Produced by Tom Carpelan © Filmkompaniet / Filmoteka Narodowá / Jupiter Film 2008 Moomin Characters TM
The Moomins (Swedish intro)
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The Swedish intro of The Moomins (Tanoshii Moomin Ikka)
夏の終わり ― MOOMIN
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His Masters Works
MOOMIN - Angel feat.COMA-CHI
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MOOMIN - Angel feat.COMA-CHI Trailer from MOOMIN 10th Full Album "Soulsl" out on 2010.3.3
Moomin 27: The Winter Bonfire
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Moomins and the Comet Chase - Trailer (HD)
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- Published: 15 Feb 2010
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Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010) - The trailer to the new Moomin adventure, in 3D! Visit: www.originalmoomin.com Directed by Maria Lindberg Produced by Tom Carpelan Production © Filmkompaniet / Filmoteka Narodowá / Jupiter Film 2010 Moomin Characters TM
Moomin 18: Hobgoblin Arrives at the Party
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Muumimusiikkia (Moomins music ) 11-19
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- Duration: 9:41
- Published: 26 Nov 2008
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- Author: muumisoitin
Higher quality version: www.youtube.com I have merged some background music together from Moomins series and tried to keep speech or other disturbing sound effects minimal. Unfortunately most of the music have these annoying things and there is nothing I can do about them :/ These are originally made by japanese composer, Sumio Shiratori and the singer is his wife, Emiko Shiratori
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| Translator | To English: Elizabeth Portch, Thomas Warburton, Kingsley Hart |
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| Illustrator | Tove Jansson |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Swedish |
| Genre | Children's Fantasy |
| Publisher | Drawn and Quarterly, Macmillan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, & Schildts |
| Media type |
The Moomins (, ) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in Moominvalley, in the forests of Finland, though in the past their temporary residences have included a lighthouse and a theatre. They have many adventures along with their various friends.
In all, nine books were released in the series, with five picture books and a comic strip being released between 1945 and 1993.
The Moomins have since been the basis for numerous television series, films and even a theme park called Moomin World in Naantali, Finland.
Synopsis and characters
The Moomin stories concern several eccentric and oddly-shaped characters, some of whom are related to each other. The central family consists of Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll.
Other characters, such as Hemulen, Sniff, The Snork maiden, Snufkin and Little My are accepted into or attach themselves into the family group from time to time, generally living separate lives in the surrounding Moominvalley, where the series is set. It is in this fictional valley that the Moomin family have decided to live, at the end of The Moomins and the Great Flood.
Biographical interpretation
Critics have interpreted various Moomin characters as being inspired by real people, especially close family members of the author. In interviews, Tove Jansson has also spoken openly about the backgrounds of and possible models for her characters.The life partner of Tove Jansson was the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, whose personality inspired the character Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter. Moomintroll and Little My have been seen as psychological self-portraits of the artist. Moominpappa and Moominmamma are often seen as portraits of Jansson's parents Viktor Jansson and Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. The novelist Alison Lurie has described the Groke, a black, hill-shaped creation with glowing eyes, as a walking manifestation of Nordic gloominess – everyone she touches dies, and the ground freezes everywhere she sits.
The Moomin stories have a very humane message. The books have caprices and utterances which ponder life and ways of the world. Snufkin comments on freedom: "One can never be entirely free, if one admires someone else too much." Little My expresses possession: "Possession means worries and luggage bags one has to drag along."
List of books
in Moomin World, Naantali, Finland]] The books in the series, in order, are:# The Moomins and the Great Flood (Originally: Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen) – 1945. # Comet in Moominland, Some editions: The Happy Moomins - (Originally: Kometjakten/Kometen kommer) – 1946. # Finn Family Moomintroll (Originally: Trollkarlens hatt) – 1948. # The Exploits of Moominpappa, Some editions: Moominpappa's Memoirs (Originally: Muminpappans bravader/Muminpappans memoarer) – 1950. # Moominsummer Madness (Originally: Farlig midsommar) – 1954. # Moominland Midwinter (Originally: Trollvinter) – 1957. # Tales from Moominvalley (Originally: Det osynliga barnet) – 1962 (Short stories). # Moominpappa at Sea (Originally: Pappan och havet) – 1965. # Moominvalley in November (Originally: Sent i november) – 1970 (In which the Moomin family is absent).
The first book, known in English as The Moomins and the Great Flood (Originally: Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen) was finally published in English in 2005 (though only in Finland).
There are also five Moomin picture books by Tove Jansson: # The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My (Originally: Hur gick det sen) – 1952. # Who Will Comfort Toffle? (Originally: Vem ska trösta knyttet?) – 1960. # The Dangerous Journey (Originally: Den farliga resan) – 1977. # An Unwanted Guest (Originally: Skurken i Muminhuset) – 1980 (No English translation published, although an unofficial translation is available online). # Songs from Moominvalley (Originally: Visor från Mumindalen) – 1993 (No English translation published).
The books and comic strips have been translated from their original Swedish and English respectively into many languages.
The comic strip
The Moomins also appeared in the form of comic strips; their first appearance to a big audience was in the popular London newspaper The Evening News in 1954, in English. Tove Jansson drew and wrote all the strips until 1959. She shared the work load with her brother Lars Jansson until 1961; after that he took over the job until 1975 when the last strip was released.
Drawn and Quarterly, a Canadian graphic novel publisher, began releasing a new reprint series of The Evening News strips, beginning in October 2006. The fifth and final volume of Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip was published in July 2010.
TV series and films
The story of the Moomins has been made into television series on many occasions by various groups, the most recent of which is a Japanese-Dutch collaboration that has also produced a feature-length film. However, there are also two Soviet serials, puppet animation Mumi-troll (Moomintroll) and cutout animation Shlyapa Volshebnika (Magician's Hat) of three parts each , and the Polish-Austrian puppet animation TV series, The Moomins which was broadcast and became popular in an edited form in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.The two newest feature film re-use the footage of the Polish-Austrian series: Moomin and Midsummer Madness had its release in 2008, and in 2010 the Moomins appear in the first Nordic 3-D film production, with the title song by Björk, in Moomins and the Comet Chase.
Moomin music
The Moomin novels describe the musical activities of the Moomins, particularly those of Snufkin, his harmonica with "trills" and "twiddles." All Moomin characters sing songs, often about their thoughts and themselves. The songs often serve as core statements of the characters' personalities.
The original songs
, in Swedish containing Tove Jansson's original Moomin songs. A Finnish version was released in 2005.]] This music was heard outside Moominvalley after they went live on theater stage in Stockholm. Director Vivica Bandler told Jansson in 1959: "Listen, here the people want songs". The earlier version of the play was cast in Helsinki with no music.Helsinki based pianist and composer, Erna Tauro was commissioned to write the songs to lyrics by Jansson. The first collection consisted of six Moomin Songs (Sex muminvisor): Moomintroll’s Song (Mumintrollets visa), Little My’s Song (Lilla Mys visa), Mrs. Fillyjonk’s Song (Fru Filifjonks sång), Theater Rat Emma’s Words of Wisdom (Teaterråttan Emmas visdomsord), Misabel’s Lament (Misans klagolåt) and Final Song (Slutsång).
More songs were published in the 1960s and 70s when Jansson and Lars Jansson produced a series of Moomin dramas for Swedish Television. The simple, yet effective melodies by Tauro were well received by the theater and TV audiences. The first songs were either sung unaccompanied or accompanied by a pianist. While the most famous Moomin songs in Scandinavia are undoubtedly Moomintroll’s Song and Little My’s Song, they appear in no context in the novels.
The original songs by Jansson and Tauro remained scattered after their initial release. The first recording of the complete collection was made in 2003 by composer and arranger Mika Pohjola on the Moomin Voices CD (Muminröster in Swedish), as a tribute to the late Tove Jansson. Tauro had died in June 1993 and some of Jansson's last lyrics were composed by Pohjola in cooperation with Jansson's heirs. Pohjola was also the arranger of all songs for a vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. The same recording has been released in a Finnish version in 2005, Muumilauluja. The Finnish lyrics were translated by Kirsi Kunnas and Vexi Salmi.
The Swedish and Finnish recordings of Moomin Voices, and their respective musical scores, have been used as course material at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Other adaptations
Independent musical interpretations of the Moomin stories have been made for the screen versions in Poland, Great Britain and Japan. These lyrics, however, often contain simple slogans, and the music is written in a children's pop music style and with no lyrics by Jansson. These songs contrast sharply with the original Moomin novels and Jansson's pictorial, descriptive and witty lyrical rhyming, as well as Erna Tauro's Scandinavian-style songs (visor) which are occasionally influenced by Kurt Weill.A Moomin opera was written in 1974 by the Finnish composer Ilkka Kuusisto.
Musicscapes from Moominvalley is a four-part work based on the Moomin compositions of composer and producer Heikki Mäenpää. It was created on the basis of the original Moomin works for the Tampere Art Museum.
Twenty new Moomin songs were produced in Finland by Timo Poijärvi and Ari Vainio in 2006. This Finnish album contains no original lyrics by Jansson. However, it is based on the novel, Comet in Moominland, and adheres to the original stories. These songs are "easily adoptable" and aimed at children, but they are also claimed to appeal to a more mature Finnish Moomin audience. The songs are performed by Samuli Edelmann, Sani, Tommi Läntinen, Susanna Haavisto and Jore Marjaranta and other established Finnish vocalists in the pop/entertainment genre. The same twenty compositions are also available as standalone multimedia CD postcards.
The Icelandic singer Björk has composed and performed the title song (Comet Song) for the film Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010). The lyrics were written by the Icelandic writer Sjón.
Hattifatteners is an art project created by Russian composer Lex Plotnikoff and photographer Tisha Razumovsky. The project consists of 31 music tracks and many photos of moomin characters models.
Theme parks and displays
Moomin World
Moomin World (Muumimaailma in Finnish, Muminvärlden in Swedish) is the Moomin Theme Park especially for children. Moomin World is located on the island of Kailo beside the old town of Naantali, near the city of Turku in Western Finland.The blueberry-coloured Moomin House is the main attraction; tourists are allowed to freely visit all five stories. It is also possible to see the Hemulen's yellow house, Moominmama's kitchen, the Fire Station, Snufkin's Camp, Moominpappa's boat, etc. Visitors may meet also Moomin characters there.
The Tampere Art Museum
The Moominvalley of the Tampere Art Museum is a museum devoted to the original works of Tove Jansson. It contains around 2,000 works. The museum is based on the Moomin books and has many original Moomin illustrations by Tove Jansson. The gem of the collection is a blue five-storey model of the Moominhouse, which has Tove Jansson as one of its builders. As a birthday present, the 20-year-old museum received a soundscape work based on the works of Tove Jansson, called Musicscapes from Moominvalley.
Interactive playroom
An interactive playroom about the Moomins was located at Scandinavia House, New York, from November 11, 2006 till March 31, 2007.
Success in popular culture
The Moomin Boom
MD-11 decorated with Moomin characters serving the Japanese route]] The Moomin Boom (muumibuumi in Finnish) started in the '90s, when Dennis Livson and Lars Jansson produced a 104-part animation series in Japan named Tales From Moominvalley, which was followed by a full length movie Comet in Moominland. Moomin books had always been steady bestsellers in Finland, Sweden and Latvia, but the animation started a new Moomin madness both in Finland and abroad, especially in Japan, where they are the official mascots of the Daiei chain of shopping centers. A large merchandising industry was built around the Moomin characters, covering everything from coffee cups and t-shirts to plastic models. New Moomin comic books and comic strips were published. Moomins were used to advertise Finland abroad: the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport was decorated with Moomin images and Finnair painted big Moomin figures on its Japan-line airplanes. The peak of the Moomin Boom was the opening of the Moomin World theme park in Naantali, Finland, which has become one of Finland's international tourist destinations.The Moomin Boom has been criticized for commercializing the Moomins. Friends of Tove Jansson and many old Moomin enthusiasts have stressed that the animations banalize the original and philosophical Moomin world to harmless family entertainment. An antithesis for the Disneyland-like Moomin World theme park is the Moomin Museum of Tampere, which exhibits the original illustrations and hand-made Moomin models by Tove Jansson.
The Jansson family has kept the rights of Moomins and controlled the Moomin Boom. The artistic control is now in the hands of Lars Jansson's daughter, Sophia Jansson-Zambra. Wanting to keep the control over Moomins, the family has turned down offers from the Walt Disney Company.
Other
The name of the Russian rock group Mumiy Troll is a variant of the Russian name for the Moomins. Swedish progressive rock band Ritual have used the idea of Moomins in various songs, including: "Seasong for the Moominpappa", "Moomin took my Head" and, recently, a whole concept album dedicated to the furry 'trolls', The Hemulic Voluntary Band.
The Moomins were selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin, the €10 Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin, minted in 2004. The obverse depicts a combination of Tove Jansson portrait with several objects: the skyline, an artist's palette, a crescent, and a sailboat. The reverse design features three Moomin characters.
References
External links
Category:Comic strips started in the 1950s Category:Fictional trolls Category:Finnish literature Category:Finnish comic strips
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