Christmas Music

Is christmas music public domain?

some of it... check with the publisher.

2008-05-24 19:44:02 by ♣♠Ben♠♣

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When do you think it's appropriate to start listening to Christmas music? You see, I sing in a choir at school and every year we have a concert and we sing Christmas music so I'm getting into the Christmas feeling right now! lol
Plus it doesn't help that I have an amazing Christmas CD...

If you are asking if it is okay, then yes. Me? I have been listening to Christmas music since March. I have been programming my lights with the music I will use for the show/display this year.

And it takes a very long time to pick out a song, edit it, and then program the lights.

I am to the point now that it is my preferred genre of music. It is certainly better than rap.

2007-11-06 12:51:58 by Emma

do you like traditional or the new up-beat christmas music?

Prefer the words to the traditional songs, but sometimes like an up-beat, new twist on them!!

2006-12-22 13:37:11 by kkahn9dodge

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I woke up this morning to my radio station playing straight Christmas music. While I am not a Scrooge by any means, I think it is a bit soon for endless holiday music. What do you say? When do you think radio stations and stores should start playing holiday music?

Chrismas music should not be played in November for sure. I must preface that I am not the Grinch or Mr. Scrooge. Quite the contrary actually, because I love Christmas. But why, oh why is Christmas music already on the radio and playing in department stores, not to mention the ridiculous amount of Christmas commercials already airing on television? Come on. It is just now mid-November and Christmas music has been playing for weeks.


Christmas has become the holiday bully. Thanksgiving has always been overshadowed by Christmas, and New Year’s Eve is just a party with left over Christmas decorations and booze. Now, Christmas is even beginning to stomp on Halloween. When I was shopping for a Halloween costume for my boyfriend at Target, I was shocked to see Christmas trees on display. Really? Christmas trees in October?


Thanksgiving is too good a holiday to give up. Thanksgiving food is probably my favorite thing about it, but more importantly, Thanksgiving should be a time to recognize everything we should be thankful for. Yeah, the economy might be down the toilet, but we still have plenty of thanks to give — for example cheap gas prices and the Alabama’s football team dominating. I guess we could go as far to say Thanksgiving is kind of like what Christmas is supposed to be like without presents, but that still doesn’t mean that Christmas should take over Thanksgiving.


I think the day after Thanksgiving is a reasonable beginning for Christmas decorations, music, presents, cookies, etc. I mean, if we are really going to listen to Christmas songs, then what happened to the 12 days of Christmas? Seriously, why do we need two whole months to prepare for Christmas?


I could ramble on and on about how our society has turned Christmas into a commercial holiday, but you have all heard that too many times before. But really, if anyone needs two months to buy all the presents for friends and family, they have truly taken the holiday out of context.


I know there are many students on our campus who do not celebrate Christmas and I’m sure by now they have stopped reading this because it does not really apply to them. But if you are still reading, I think everyone can learn something from the Christmas spirit, even if you do not believe in the Christian aspects of Christmas.


Christmas is about family, friends and giving. No, I do not mean excessive giving. Instead of spending millions on frivolous gifts, maybe we can share the wealth. Don’t get me wrong, I love getting presents on Christmas, but I would probably have an incredible Christmas if I only got about half of them. I think the right thing for us to do would be to ask our parents for half of the presents and ask them to donate some of the money to charities or less fortunate people.


Christmas should be about spending time with family and friends, giving and sharing the experience with them, not how many fancy presents you get. So I’m going to challenge you all. Let’s see how little you can spend on Christmas gifts for your friends and family this year. But that’s not all — let’s see how thoughtful, rather than commercial, your gifts can be. So once you’ve finished eating all your leftovers, whip out some of your favorite memories and pictures, tape, glue, paper, etc., and make some thoughtful gifts for your friends and family. It’ll be fun.

2009-11-19 05:54:16 by Kat DeMuriel

I sing with a mixed choir, and I am on the music selection comittee. I am looking for suggestions of Christmas music that can be performed chorally. We sing a variety of music. SATB is good but if it is a good arrangement willing to try other voicings. Choir is about 35 voices.
The choir is non auditioned and of very mixed orientation. It is based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Also sometimes the treble voices are harder to come by, believe it or not we are not experiencing a shortage of men. How ever some of the female population seem to be short in number, particularly sopranos. I don't think there are many lesbian sopranos.

The Alfred Burt carols are wonderful, http://www.alfredburtcarols.com/

Classic, some are more well know than others. Thoughtful lyrics and beautiful music. My favorite piece from the collection is "Some Children See Him." They are fairly easy to learn, but interesting.

Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest, by Conrad Susa
A beautiful selection of 10 songs, all done in a variety of Latin languages, Spanish, Catalonian, Puerto Rican, etc. More challenging, but definately worth the effort. Really beautiful!!! There are two opportunities for soloists in this piece.

Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten. I sang this in an SSAA group, but you might be able to find it in SATB. We only did two pieces from the book, Wolcum Yole, and This Little Babe. This Little Babe is a challenging piece with lots of quick words, but really great and fun to do with fabulous lyrics.

Christmas in about 3 minutes, by Mark Weston is a fun piece. It is all familiar carols one on top the other. We had an audience contest to see who could name the most songs.

2006-09-04 16:30:01 by David Y