The Big Book of Christmas Songs

This edition consists of 176 Christmas songs arranged for clarinet.  Each melody is short, almost always a half-page or less in length, and suitable for a beginner clarinettist. 

This massive collection represents Christmas music dating from the 1500's up to 2003, and from 22 different countries; although many Christmas songs have origins in earlier centuries and other countries, most of the songs included here were written by Americans.

A complete list of the titles appears below:

A Caroling We Go: Johnny Marks
All I Want For Christmas Is You: Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff
All My Heart This Night Rejoices: Melody by Johann Ebeling, Words by Paul Gerhardt
Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night): Traditional Welsh
Angels from the Realms of Glory: Melody by Henry Smart, Words by James Montgomery
Angels We Have Heard on High: Traditional French
As Long As There's Christmas: Melody by Rachel Portman, Words by Don Black
As With Gladness Men of Old: Melody by Conrad Kocher, Words by William Chatterton Dix
Auld Lang Syne: Traditional Scottish
Away In A Manger: Traditional, unknown origins (Music by William J. Kirkpatrick)
Away In A Manger: Traditional, unknown origins (Music by James R. Murray)
Baby, It's Cold Outside: Frank Loesser
Because It's Christmas (For All The Children): Melody by Barry Manilow, Words by Bruce Sussman & Jack Feldman
Blue Christmas: Billy Hayes & Jay Johnson
The Boar's Head Carol: Traditional English
Brazilian Sleigh Bells: Percy Faith
Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light Melody by Johann Schop, Words by Johann Rist
Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella: Traditional French
Carol of the Bells: Melody by Mykola Leontovych, Words by Peter J. Wilhousky
El Cant dels ocells (Carol of the Birds): Traditional Catalan
Caroling, Caroling: Melody by Alfred Burt, Words by Wihla Hutson
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem: Traditional Danish
The Chipmunk Song: Ross Bagdasarian
Christ Was Born On Christmas Day: Traditional
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S: Melody by Eddy Arnold, Words by Jenny Lou Carson
Christmas All Across the U.S.A.: Rita Abrams
Christmas In Dixie: Jeffrey Cook, Teddy Gentry, Mark Herndon, & Randy Owen
Christmas Is All In The Heart: Steven Curtis Chapman
Christmas Is: Melody by Percy Faith, Words by Spence Maxwell
Christmas Is A-Comin’ (May God Bless You): Frank Luther
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire): Mel Tormé & Robert Wells
Christmas Star: Melody by John Williams, Words by Leslie Bricusse
Christmas Time Is Here: Melody by Vince Guaraldi, Words by Lee Mendelson
The Christmas Waltz: Melody by Jule Styne, Words by Sammy Cahn
Cold December Nights: Michael McCary & Shawn Stockman
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus: Melody by Rowland Hugh Prichard, Words by Charles Wesley
Coventry Carol: Traditional English
Danse de la Fée-Dragée (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy), from The Nutcracker: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Deck the Halls: Traditional Welsh
Ding Dong Merrily On High: Melody Traditional French, Words by George Ratcliffe Woodward
Don’t Save It All For Christmas Day: Celine Dion, Peter Zizzo, & Ric Wake
Do They Know It’s Christmas? Bob Geldof & Midge Ure
Do You Hear What I Hear? Melody by Gloria Shayne, Words by Noël Regney
Feliz Navidad: José Feliciano
The First Noel: Traditional English
The Friendly Beasts: Traditional English
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (From Heaven Above To Earth I Come): Martin Luther
Frosty The Snow Man: Steven Nelson & Jack Rollins
Fum, Fum, Fum: Traditional Catalan
The Gift: Tom Douglas & Jim Brickman
Going Home For Christmas: Steven Curtis Chapman & James Isaac Elliott
Go Tell It on the Mountain: African-American spiritual
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Traditional English
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice): Traditional
Good King Wenceslas: Traditional
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer: Randy Brooks
Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake: Elmo Shropshire & Rita Abrams
The Greatest Gift of All: John Jarvis
Greenwillow Christmas: Frank Loesser
Grown-Up Christmas List: David Foster & Linda Thompson-Jenner
Happy Christmas, Little Friend: Melody by Richard Rodgers, Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
Happy Hanukkah, My Friend (The Hanukkah Song): Justin Wilde & Douglas Alan Konecky
Happy Holiday: Irving Berlin
Happy Xmas (War Is Over): John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Hard Candy Christmas: Carol Hal
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: Melody by Felix Mendelssohn, Words by Charles Wesley
He: Melody by Jack Richards, Words by Richard Mullen
Il est ne, le Devin Enfant (He Is Born, This Holy Child): Traditional French
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane): Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman
Here We Come A-Wassailing: Traditional English
The Holly and the Ivy: Traditional English
A Holly Jolly Christmas: Johnny Marks
(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays: Melody by Robert Allen, Words by Al Stillman
Hymne: Vangelis
I Am So Glad On Christmas Eve: Melody by Peder Knudsen, Words by Marie Wexelsen
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day: Melody by John Baptiste Calkin, Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day: Melody by Johnny Marks, Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa ClausI Tommie Connor
I Saw Three Ships: Traditional English
I Wonder As I Wander: John Jacob Niles
I’ll Be Home For Christmas: Kim Gannon & Walter Kent
I’m Spending Christmas With You: Tom Occhipinti
I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm: Irving Berlin
In The Bleak Midwinter: Melody by Gustav Holst, Words by Christina Rossetti
It Came Upon The Midnight Clear: Melody by Richard Storrs Willis, Words by Edmund Hamilton Sears
It Must Have Been The Mistletoe (Our First Christmas): Justin Wilde & Doug Konecky
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: Meredith Willson
It’s Christmas Time All Over The World: Hugh Martin
It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve: Marty Panzer
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring: Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesus Holy, Born So Lowly: Traditional Polish
Jingle-Bell Rock: Joe Beal & Jim Boothe
Jingle Bells: James Lord Pierpont
Jingle, Jingle, Jingle: Johnny Marks
Jolly Old St. Nicholas: Traditional American
Joy to the World: Melody by Traditional, Words by Isaac Watts
Last Christmas: George Michael
The Last Month Of The Year: Vera Hall, adapted/arranged by Ruby Pickens Tartt & Alan Lomax
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Melody by Jule Styne, Words by Sammy Cahn
Let’s Have An Old Fashioned Christmas: Melody by Joe Solomon, Words by Larry Conley
Little Saint Nick: Brian Wilson & Mike Love
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming): Traditional German
(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag: Harold Stanley, Irving Taylor & Dudley Brooks
March Of The Three Kings: Traditional French
A Marshmallow World: Melody by Peter De Rose, Words by Carl Sigman
Masters In This Hall: Traditional English
Mele Kalikamaka: Robert Alex Anderson
Merry Christmas, Baby: Lou Baxter & Johnny Moore
Merry Christmas, Darling: Richard Carpenter & Frank Pooler
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas: Melody by John Williams, Words by Leslie Bricusse
The Merry Christmas Polka: Melody by Sonny Burke, Words by Paul Francis Webster
A Merry, Merry Christmas To You: Johnny Marks
Miss You Most At Christmas Time: Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff
Mister Santa: Pat Ballard
Mistletoe And Holly: Frank Sinatra, Dok Stanford & Henry W. Sanicola
The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year: Johnny Marks
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year: Eddie Pola & George Wyle
The Night Before Christmas Song: Melody by Johnny Marks, Words by Clement Moore, adapted by Johnny Marks
My Favorite Things: Melody by Richard Rodgers, Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
My Only Wish This Year: Brian Kierulf & Joshua Schwartz
Nuttun’ For Christmas: Roy Bennett & Sid Tepper
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree): Traditional German
Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful): Traditional
Ihr Kinderlein, kommet (O Come, Little Children): Melody by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Words by Christoph von Schmid & Catholic priest
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: Traditional
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night): Melody by Adolphe Adam, Words by Placide Cappeau
Of The Father’s Love Begotten: Melody by Traditional, Words by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
Old Toy Trains: Roger Miller
O Little Town Of Bethlehem: Melody by Lewis H. Redner, Words by Phillips Brooks
Once In Royal David’s City: Melody by Henry J. Gauntlett, Words by Cecil F. Alexander
On Christmas Night: Traditional Sussex
O Sanctissima: Traditional Sicilian
Patapan: Bernard de La Monnoye
Please Come Home For Christmas: Charles Brown & Gene Redd
Pretty Paper: Willie Nelson
Rise Up, Shepherd, And Follow: African-American Spiritual
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree: Johnny Marks
Rudolph The Red-Noise Reindeer: Johnny Marks
Santa Baby: Joan Javits, Phil Springer & Tony Springer
Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me): Claude DeMetrius & Aaron Schroeder
Santa Claus Is Back In Town: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town: Melody by John Fred Coots, Words by Haven Gillespie
Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry): Hal Hackady & Charles Naylor
Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep: Traditional French
Stille Nacht (Silent Night): Melody by Franz Xaver Gruber, Words by Joseph Franciscus Mohr
Silver And Gold: Johnny Marks
Silver Bells: Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Sing We Now Of Christmas: Traditional French
Snowfall: Melody by Claude Thornhill, Words by Ruth Thornhill
Some Children See Him: Melody by Alfred Burt, Words by Wihla Hutson
Some Things For Christmas (A Snake, Some Mice, Some Glue and a Hole Too): Melody by Jacquelyn Reinach, Words by Jacquelyn Reinach & Joan Lamport
Special Gift: Myron Davis & Stanley Brown
Somewhere In My Memory: Melody by John Williams, Words by Leslie Bricusse
The Star Carol: Melody by Alfred Burt, Words by Wihla Hutson
Still, Still, Still: Traditional Austrian
Suzy Snowkale: Sid Tepper & Roy Bennet
Tenessee Christmas: Amy Grant & Gary Chapman
That Christmas Feeling: Bennie Benjamin & George Weiss
This Christmas: Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor
Toyland: Melody by Victor Herbert, Words by Glen MacDonough
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Traditional English
Up On The Housetop: Benjamin Russell Hanby
Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night: Traditional
We Need A Little Christmas: Jerry Herman
We Three Kings: John Henry Hopkins Jr.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas: Traditional English
Wexford Carol: Traditional Irish
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Frank Loesser
What Child Is This? Melody by Traditional English, Words by William Catterton Dix
When Christmas Morn Is Dawning: Traditional Swedish
When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter: Johnny Marks
The White World Of Winter: Melody by Mitchell Parish, Words by Hoagy Carmichael
Who Would Imagine A King: Mervyn Warren & Hallerin Hilton Hill
Wonderful Christmastime: Paul McCartney
You Don’t Have To Be Alone: Viet Renn, Joshua Chasez, & David Nicoll
You’re All I Want For Christmas: Glen Moore & Seger Ellis