Best Modern Christmas Songs

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This collection features over 20 popular modern Christmas songs by today's top artists arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames. Includes: Christmas Lights (Coldplay) * Christmas Saves the Year (Twenty One Pilots) * Christmas Tree Farm (Taylor Swift) * Cozy Little Christmas (Katy Perry) * Everyday Is Christmas (Sia) * Glittery (Kacey Musgraves) * Hallelujah (Carrie Underwood & John Legend) * He Shall Reign Forevermore (Chris Tomlin) * I Need You Christmas (Jonas Brothers) * Light of the World (Lauren Daigle) * Mistletoe (Justin Bieber) * Santa Tell Me (Ariana Grande) * Underneath the Tree (Kelly Clarkson) * and more.

Describes the origins of thirty-one famous Christmas songs, including "Jingle Bells," "O Holy Night," and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and provides the lyrics to each.

The 65 arrangements in this collection span multiple decades and styles, making this a must-have for those who love Christmas music and the holiday season. Timeless carols, lyrical pop hits, and playful children's songs are all included, guaranteeing hours of enjoyment for the entire family! Lyrics and chord symbols are provided. Titles: A Marshmallow World * All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth * All Through the Night * Angels We Have Heard on High * Arabian Dance * Auld Lang Syne * Away in a Manger * Believe (from The Polar Express) * C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S * Christmas in Killarney * The Christmas Waltz * Deck the Hall * Feliz Navidad * The First Noel * The Friendly Beasts * Frosty the Snowman * Gesù Bambino * The Gift * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslaus * Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Here We Come A-Caroling * Holly Jolly Christmas * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * I Saw Three Ships * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Jingle Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * Joy to the World * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * The Little Drummer Boy * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * The Merry Christmas Polka * Nuttin' for Christmas * O Christmas Tree * O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) * O Come, O Come, Emmanuel * O Holy Night * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow * Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree * Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * Sleigh Ride * Suzy Snowflake * The Twelve Days of Christmas * The Ukrainian Bell Carol * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * There Is No Christmas Like a Home Christmas * Toyland * Up on the Housetop * We Three Kings of Orient Are * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Welcome Christmas * What Child Is This? * Where Are You Christmas * Winter Wonderland. 144 pages.

This giant collection features over 50 holiday classics from traditional carols to modern Christmas hits.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Arrangements for piano, voice and guitar of 100 all-time Christmas favorites, both sacred and secular in nature. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Christmas Time Is Here * Do You Hear What I Hear * The Friendly Beasts * Grown-Up Christmas List * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * I'll Be Home for Christmas * The Little Drummer Boy * Mary, Did You Know? * O Holy Night * Please Come Home for Christmas * Silver Bells * White Christmas * Winter Wonderland * and more.

A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

When Bing Crosby’s "White Christmas" debuted in 1942, no one imagined that a holiday song would top the charts year after year. One of the best-selling singles ever released, it remains on rotation at tree lighting ceremonies across the country, in crowded shopping malls on Black Friday, and at warm diners on lonely Christmas Eve nights. Over the years, other favorites have been added to America’s annual playlist, including Elvis Presley’s "Blue Christmas," the King Cole Trio’s "The Christmas Song," Gene Autry’s "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Willie Nelson’s "Pretty Paper," and, of course, Elmo & Patsy’s "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Viewing American holiday values through the filter of familiar Christmas songs, Ronald Lankford examines popular culture, consumerism, and the dynamics of the traditional American family. He surveys more than seventy-five years of songs and reveals that the “modern American Christmas” has carried a complex and sometimes contradictory set of meanings. Interpreting tunes against the backdrop of the eras in which they were first released, he identifies the repeated themes of nostalgia, commerce, holiday blues, carnival, and travesty that underscore so much beloved music. This first full-length analysis of the lyrics, images, and commercial forces inextricably linked to Yuletide music hits the heart of what many Americans think Christmas is--or should be.

(Instrumental Folio). An awesome collection of all the best Christmas songs, traditional and contemporary, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Angels We Have Heard on High * Auld Lang Syne * Away in a Manger * Blue Christmas * The Chipmunk Song * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Do They Know It's Christmas? * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * Last Christmas * Let's Have an Old Fashioned Christmas * Mele Kalikimaka * Miss You Most at Christmas Time * The Most Wonderful Time of the Year * My Favorite Things * Nuttin' for Christmas * Pretty Paper * Santa Baby * Silent Night * Wonderful Christmastime * and more!

Behind the Christmas songs we love to sing lie fascinating stories that will enrich your holiday celebration. Taking you inside the nativity of over thirty favorite songs and carols, Ace Collins introduces you to people you’ve never met, stories you’ve never heard, and meanings you’d never have imagined. The next time you and your family sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," you’ll have a new understanding of its message and popular roots. You’ll discover how "Angels from the Realms of Glory," with its sublime lyrics and profound theology, helped usher in a quiet revolution in worship. You’ll learn the strange history of the haunting and powerful "O Holy Night," including the song’s surprising place in the history of modern communications. And you’ll step inside the life of Mark Lowry and find out how he came to pen the words to the contemporary classic "Mary, Did You Know?"Still other songs such as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" trace back to mysterious origins--to ninth-century monks, nameless clergy, and unknown commoners of ages past. Joining hands with such modern favorites as "White Christmas" and "The Christmas Song," they are part of the legacy of inspiration, faith, tears, love, and spiritual joy that is Christmas. From the rollicking appeal of "Jingle Bells" to the tranquil beauty of "Silent Night," the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world--Jesus, the most wonderful Christmas Song of all.