When the days in northern hemisphere become shorter and frostier, it’s the time to spark Christmas lights and start preparing for one of the warmest family holidays. Christmas is celebrated differently in various corners of the world. The streets of Europe are decorated with fir twigs and fairy lights, the windows lit up with stars and candles.
If entering a house you’ve sensed the fragrance of vanilla and cinnamon, you are sure to be treated to Christmas cookies. Just like the holidays sweets, Christmas music has its own “fragrance”. And it’s very special, varying from country to country. Sometimes it’s rather muffled as in the style of the famous “Silent Night” carol, and sometimes it’s filled with scintillating irrepressible joy like the first chords of Bach’s “Christmas oratorio”.
The spirit of the approaching festivity has seized MusicaNeo too! We invite you to visit our “Featured Sheet Music” section that is now filled with the sound of carols, choirs, vocal and instrumental music for Christmas time. For everyone to find something worthy and interesting, we have added to the list some modern music hits that occupy top positions in the music charts of USA, Great Britain and Germany: Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass”, John Legend’s “All of Me”, Hozier ‘s “Take Me To Church”, Olly Murs’ “Wrapped Up”, Clean Bandit ‘s “Real Love”, David Guetta’s “Dangerous” and many other popular songs.
The magic of Christmas inspires many composers of our musicians’ community for creating new music pieces. We should note that from year to year some authors keep composing and publishing new music specially for this holiday. Only within the last month our sheet music catalogue has been complemented with over 100 music compositions in this category. And this means it’s time to take another look at our Christmas sheet music collection!
Among Christmas gifts, there is always one that immediately captures your attention. Be it the colorful package or a perfectly tied bow – everything about it says “Open me now!”. Let that special gift be the amazing video “The World For Christmas” by the Swedish vocal quintet “The Real Group”. At the personal MusicaNeo site of its founder Anders Edenroth you can download the sheet music to this beautiful Christmas composition right now!
If you haven’t decided on the holiday concert program for Christmas and New Year 2015 celebrations, have a look at the Top-15 of Christmas songs that are the most popular at our site. Sheet music to all of the works can be easily found via the site’s search engine.
- А. Adam. O, Holy Night
- Sting & Robert Sadin. Gabriel's Message
- Chris Rice. Go Light Your World
- Gloria Shayne & Noël Regney. Do You Hear What I Hear
- Johnny Marks. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- F. X. Gruber. Silent Night
- James Horner, Mariah Carey, Will Jennings. Where Are You Christmas?
- Jule Styne. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- R. Fisher Boyce. Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
- Jim Boothe, Joe Beal. Jingle Bell Rock
- John Williams. Somewhere in My Memory
- Johannes Brahms. Cradle Song form the “Five Songs” cycle, ор. 49
- Alfred Burt. Some Children See Him
- R. Alex Anderson. Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas in Hawaii)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
MusicaNeo invites everyone to immerse in the wonderful fairytale world of Christmas music. Let it fill with joy every day in anticipation of the holiday!
The Real Group - Silent Night (from "The World for Christmas")
Photo: Advent wreath, First Advent Sunday by Micha L. Rieser. Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adventskranz-1.Advent.jpg