The r/piano 2013 Ultimate Christmas Sheet Music Collection

Hey everyone, OnaZ and I realized that we should have a post like last year's for gathering a whole bunch of Christmas/Holiday/Wintry piano sheet music together in one place.

I'm too busy to scour the interwebs again this year for music, so this is mostly a copy & paste from last year's 2012 Ultimate Christmas Music Collection post, just with some cleaning up and fixing broken links.

We've got beginner to intermediate to advanced; traditional, contemporary, holiday classics, pop, jazz, and even classical. Most of it's free, but there are a few $2-$5 sheets that are worth it as well. Hopefully there's something for everyone here to learn over the holidays for your own enjoyment, for impressing family & friends, and for sharing with the r/piano community!

Please post any other favourite arrangements you know of in the comments -- This is a list-in-progress!

The List:

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Traditional - Beginner

A whole bunch of free Beginner/Intermediate Christmas sheet music links are compiled here:

• http://freebies.about.com/od/freeholidayfun/tp/free-christmas-sheet-music.htm.

Some of the sites referenced:

• http://www.mfiles.co.uk/christmas-music-and-carols.htm (~40 pieces)

• http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Freebies/Holidays/ChristmasDEC.html (~40 pieces)

• http://cantorion.org/musicsearch/type,instruments,sort/Christmas+Carol,Piano,downloads-desc/1 (~20 pieces)

• http://piano.about.com/od/holidaypianomusic/l/bl_Christmas-Piano-Sheet-Music.htm (7 pieces)

• http://musiced.about.com/od/lessonsandtips/a/xmasxmeets.htm (~30 pieces)

• free-scores (~100 pieces)

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Traditional - Early Intermediate

• http://www.take-a-piano-sheet-music-break.com/free-christmas-sheet-music.html (~30 pieces, including some Brazilian music!)

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Intermediate/Advanced Classics

• NEW The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - sheet (also see Vince Guaraldi version down below)

• Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride (piano solo version) - video - sheet here or here

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Contemporary Style

Intermediate

• Many beautiful FREE intermediate piano arrangements by Sally Deford are here: http://www.defordmusic.com/sheet-music/music-by-topic/ (click "Christmas" to expand the list). It's rare to find such good quality arrangements at this level! Each piece has PDF sheet music and MP3 audio. Here are some of them:

• Silent Night / Still, Still, Still

• The Cold December

• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Deck the Halls

• Good King Wenceslas

• Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

• Shepherd's Cradle Song

More contemporary arrangements:

• David Nevue - We Three Kings - video - sheet for $3 - sample page

• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence main theme - video - sheet

• Joy to the World / Angels We have Heard on High - arr. by Tia Wood... sounds like Bubble Bobble - playable sheet (just click play button or download link)

• George Winston - Prelude/Carol of the Bells - video - sheet - $5 sheet - $19 songbook

• NEW John Schmidt - I Saw Three Ships - video - sheet

• NEW See songbooks section for more...

Advanced

• Jarrod Radnich - various Christmas pieces - promo video - sheets ($5 each / $35 bundle for all 8)

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Pop

• Coldplay - Christmas Lights - original video - piano video - corresponding tutorial video - free sheet - $5 sheet

• Sara Bareilles/Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song - video - sheet

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Jazz

• John Eidsvoog - awesome free, short, not-too-difficult jazzy arrangements (video+sheets on each page):

• Santa Claus is Coming to Town, in 7/8

• Jingle Bells in 5/8

• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

• We Three Kings, jazz waltz (currently $0.00 but account required to download)

• Auld Lang Syne, in 7/8

• ... and Worth the $2.95: Sleigh Ride in 7/8

More Jazz...

• Harry Connick Jr - Winter Wonderland (from When Harry Met Sally) - video - sheet (name your price: free to $200)

• Jacob Koller - Jingle Bells - video showing sheet - $3 sheet

• See the Songbooks/Collections section below for more jazz.

Don't forget you can find many lead sheets on wikifonia (when the site isn't down!):

• Wikifonia - "Christmas"

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Classical

Beginner:

( still to do... )

Intermediate:

• Schumann - Op.68, No.12, Knight Rupert - info - video - pdf

• Mendelssohn - Six Christmas Pieces, Op. 72 - video (info on Xmas association is in video description) - pdf

• Debussy - Des pas sur la Neige (Footprints in the snow) - video - pdf (go to VI)

• Josef Suk - Lullabies Op.33, No. 5 - Christmas Dream - (no video found) - pdf (page 14, #5)

• Brahms - Op.122, No,8, "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" - info - video - pdf

• Sergei Lyapunov - Fêtes de Noël, Op.41 No.1, "Nuit de Noël" - video - pdf

Advanced:

• Debussy - the snow is dancing - video - pdf (Scroll to IV.)

• Bartok - Romanian Christmas Songs - video - pdf

• Busoni - Nuit de Noël, BV 251 - video - pdf

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SongBooks/Collections:

• Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook - amazon latest - '81 version download

• NEW Japanese collection: Christmas Songs for Play in First-Class Restaurant - google - pdf (note: could not find a way to buy this online)

• The Real Christmas Book - buy

• NEW The (free) Public Domain Christmas Jazz Fakebook

• NEW Nikki Iles - Jazz on a Winter's Night - sample video - buy

• Vince Guaraldi - Peanuts Songbook - All of his famous holiday song arrangements are in here, including The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire), Christmas Time is Here, O Tannenbaum, What Child is this -- and more! - songbook pdf - on amazon

• Lots of great suggestions for Christmas sheet music books in this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/117w58/im_looking_for_christmas_sheet_music/

• sheetmusicplus jazz list or sheetmusicplus Christmas

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Merry Christmas / Hanukkah / Festivus !!!