Christmas music

Christmas music is songs that relate to Christmas and New Year's. The music is normally heard during the holiday season.

Music was an early part of Christmas and its celebrations.

During the Middle Ages, the English people combined circle dances with singing and called them carols. Christmas carols in English first appeared in a 1426 work from John Audelay.

Traditional Christmas songs are "Silent Night", "Deck the Halls" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen".^[1]

Modern Christmas songs include "Jingle Bell Rock", "The Christmas Song", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "Sleigh Ride", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas".^[2]^[3]

Christmas Music Media

A Christmas minstrel playing pipe and tabor
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, (left) in the snow where the Nine Lessons and Carols are broadcast on the BBC and around the world on Christmas Eve
Child Christmas carolers in Bucharest, Romania 1929
The large repertoire of Advent and Christmas church music plays an important role in services
Classical concerts are popular at Christmas, such as this performance in a church in Sweden
Museum staff singing Christmas carols in the Natural History Museum, London
Carol singers in festive costume in Poland
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), a British composer who helped to popularise many medieval and folk carols for the modern age
Blandfordia nobilis, or Christmas Bells, of eastern Australia