Browse our Christmas sheet music books on sale to see what we have available. We offer a variety of Christmas sheet music books on sale including: Christian, rock-n-roll, traditional, contemporary, artist-or-movie related and many more! We will be updating this page frequently, so be sure to bookmark it to see if anything interests you and enjoy some great savings!

If available, many of these books, like The Muppet Christmas Carol offer individual digital sheet music downloads, too. So if you see a song you like, you can simply click on it from the songbook information. The Muppet Christmas Carol songbook features eleven new Muppet Christmas carols and full color photos. This particular book offers songs from the 1992 film.

Released in 1992, it is one of many film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The movie follows Ebenezer Scrooge who is a cruel and ruthless money lender. His immoral business practices cause bring a lot of hardship to London’s Camden town, the film’s setting. During the night of Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by three ghosts; the ghost of Christmas past, present and future. He discovers the errors of his ways and becomes an honest and charitable man. The film is a musical with seven songs in the original theatrical release.–SOURCE: Wikipedia

Here are the songs printed in this kid-friendly Christmas songbook for The Muppet Christmas Carol sheet music.

• Scrooge performed by Cast
• Room in Your Heart performed by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker
• One More Sleep ’til Christmas performed by Kermit
• Marley and Marley performed by Statler and Waldorf
• Chairman of the Board performed by Sam the Eagle
• It Feels Like Christmas performed by Ghost of Christmas Present
• Christmas Scat performed by Kermit and Tiny Tim
• Bless Us All performed by Tiny Tim and Family
• Thankful Heart performed by Mr. Scrooge
• When Love is Found/It Feels Like Christmas (Finale) performed by Mr. Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Ghost of Christmas Present and Cast
• When Love is Gone sung by Martina McBride

We hope you enjoy this limited-time savings on a variety of Christmas sheet music books through Musicnotes.com! For more Christmas sheet music ideas, be sure to browse our sale on Christmas sheet music books on sale or our selection of Christmas sheet music to see what we have available.

Simply suggest a winter holiday song that we do not have digital sheet music for on Musicnotes.com, for your chance to win a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to our online store! You can use the gift certificate to purchase anything you need including: Christmas sheet music, Guitar Guru Sessions, Chanukah sheet music and much, much more!

Our Suggest a Winter Holiday Song Contest starts today and will run through midnight on November 30th.

We’d like to present you with a few contest rules for our Suggest a Winter Holiday Song Contest. They are:

1. Where to Recommend Your Song: You must post your song suggestion with a title, composer and/or performer as a comment on this blog post with a valid email address. Any other requests will not be considered as part of this contest. The valid email address will only be used to notify you if you won a gift certificate, and is not publicly displayed when you comment on our blog.

2. What Songs We Will/Will Not Consider: We will consider any song suggestion related to a winter or a winter holiday. Some popular winter holidays include Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc. In order to be considered for the contest, the song that you recommend must not be on Musicnotes.com currently in digital sheet music format. Also, there is one song we are currently arranging that is not on Musicnotes.com. That song is African Noel.

3. How Winners Will be Notified: Musicnotes.com will review entries and award the gift certificates by December 15th, 2009. Songs recommended will be added to the site by December 25th, 2009. We will notify you via email that you have won. Please be advised that only entries made from now through November 30th, 2009 are eligible for the contest.

To avoid confusion, winners will also be awarded on a first-come/first-serve basis. In other words, if two people request the same song, we will award the certificate to the first commenter with a valid email address. You may enter as many times as you like for your chance to win. No purchase necessary.

Please note: Several of you are recommending additional arrangements of songs we already have on Musicnotes.com in digital sheet music format. Please be aware that only new songs are being considered for the contest.

Simply think of a winter holiday song, search Musicnotes.com to ensure that we don’t have already have it. Then, recommend the title, composer and/or performer in the comments below for your chance to win today! Be sure to stop back or bookmark the page and check the comments, too!

For our free piano sheet music download, we are featuring a holiday medley of the songs Jolly Old St. Nicholas and Up on the Housetop.

Jolly Old St. Nicholas is a traditional Christmas carol that may have been composed in the early 1900s. The simple lyrics are about someone wishing for St. Nick to come and leave them presents in their stockings. Up on the Housetop (Ho! Ho! Ho!) is an older traditional Christmas carol from the 1860s. Composed by Benjamin Hanby, this popular tune is also about Santa coming down the chimney to fill the stockings of little kids with presents. Combined, the two carols together create a fun, holiday medley that we hope you’ll enjoy singing and playing.

This holiday medley is available as a free sheet music download from now until the end of November. We have provided abridged lyrics as part of the medley, so you can sing our arrangement as a solo or with your family and friends!

Guitar Guru Lovers! Download the Russian Dance for Free!

This month’s free Guitar Guru Session and guitar tab, is a movement from The Nutcracker Suite composed by Tchaikovsky. The Russian Dance, which is also known as Trepak, was composed as part of the ballet in the early 1890s.

Now you can learn how to play the Russian Dance from The Nutcracker Ballet on guitar for free, through the month of November. Simply visit our free sheet music page to download this seasonal arrangement. We hope you enjoy it!

New Songs from YOUR Requests!

We have been hard at work adding a ton of new songs that you’ve asked for. First, we’d like to point out that we are expanding our selection of alternate instruments solos. This week, we added a ton of popular flute sheet music solos by some of your favorite artists. We’ve also added quite a few fun songs for guitar, including new guitar tab by Taylor Swift.

Here are some new songs we’ve added from the songs that you’ve requested:

• For Emma by Bon Iver
• Chances by Five for Fighting
• I Know It’s Today by Jeanine Tesori
• Guitar Guru Session for Cold as Ice by Foreigner
• So This Is Love by Cinderella
• Does It Still McFly? by Michael Giacchino and other songs from the new STAR TREK.
• Come Back to Me by David Cook
• Haven’t Met You Yet by Michael Buble

Contest News! Guitar Guru Headset Give-a-Way and New Contest!

For the month of November, be sure to check out our Suggest a Winter Holiday Song Contest for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Musicnotes.com!

We’ve contacted our Guitar Guru headset winner for October’s contest. Thank you to everyone who entered for a chance to win.

Until next time, remember… practice really does make perfect!

We came up with twenty piano solos that we think are pretty scary. Many of these are by your favorite classical sheet music composers including Ludwig Van Beethoven, Edvard Grieg and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

When we were looking into our collection of sheet music for these scary piano solos, we realized that many of these compositions are in minor keys. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, for example, is extremely scary when played on the organ.

The complexity of the arrangements we have listed here ranges from easy piano to advanced. Which of these scary piano solos have you played? Which do you want to learn how to play?

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach Digital sheet music
• Danse Macabre by C. Saint-Saens Digital sheet music
• Hungarian Dance No. 5 by J. Brahms Digital sheet music
• William Tell Overture by G. Rossini Digital sheet music
• Totentanz by F. Listz Sheet music book
• Funeral March (for French Horn and Piano) by E. Grieg Sheet music book
• Lacrymosa (from Requiem) by W. Mozart Digital sheet music
• Sonata No 17 in D Minor, Op 31, No 2 (Tempest) by L.V. Beethoven Sheet music book
• Pictures at an Exhibition by M.P. Mussorgsky Sheet music book
• Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 22 by A. Ginastera Sheet music book
• Opus 31, Prelude No. 8 by C.V. Alkan Sheet music book
• The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 by S. Rachmaninoff Sheet music book
• Sonata No. 9 by A.N. Scriabin Sheet music book
• Funeral March of a Marionette by C.F. Gounod Digital sheet music
• Theme Song from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by P. Dukas Digital sheet music
• Sonata in C Minor Pathetique by L.V. Beethoven Digital sheet music
• Moonlight Sonata 1. Adagio Sostenuto by L.V. Beethoven Digital Sheet Music
• In the Hall of the Mountain King by E. Grieg Digital Sheet Music
• Symphony No 5 by L.V. Beethoven Digital sheet music
• Shadow Dance Op. 39, No. 8 by E.A. Macdowell Digital sheet music

With music and lyrics written by Joss Whedon, the songs offer a range of styles from jazz to rock to Broadway. Now, you can download digital sheet music for Once More With Feeling. Here are some of the more memorable songs from this popular episode:

• I’ll Never Tell which was sung by Xander and Anya
• Going Through the Motions was sung by Buffy, but was also sung as a reprise.
• Rest In Peace was sung by the vampire Spike to Buffy.
• Under Your Spell was sung by Tara to Willow
• Standing was sung by Giles
• Walk Through the Fire was sung by the cast from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

In addition to songs from this musical episode, we also have more sheet music from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including the theme song.

Hit Songs from Your Song Requests

We are pleased to announce that we’ve added these brand new songs straight from your song requests from some wonderful performers!

• Fallin’ for You by Colbie Caillat
• Doesn’t Mean Anything by Alicia Keys
• Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood
• Wild Horses by Susan Boyle
• Winter Snow by Chris Tomlin
• Bridal March by Jonathan Cain
• Happy by Leona Lewis
• Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z with Alicia Keys

Stay tuned for more news about your song requests and Christmas sheet music. We’ve heard that some of you are already practicing Christmas carols, and we want to ensure that we get you the sheet music you need to sing or play for this year’s holiday season!

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Isn’t it amazing how spooky a piano can be? Songwriters have been composing piano sheet music for everything from creepy TV shows to somber classical music. There are quite a few movies with eerie theme songs like Tubular Bells from THE EXORCIST or the Main Theme from John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN.

There are also quite a few songs that weren’t initially written to be used in scary movies, but were used to highlight different scenes. ZOMBIELAND is one example of a film that uses several existing songs. (If you’re interested, we have quite a bit of ZOMBIELAND sheet music that you can look through.) In ZOMBIELAND’s case, the music is a combination of an original score and existing songs. That phenomenon actually happens more often than you might think, which is why multiple soundtracks for a film might be released. If you ever want to find out what songs have been used in your favorite movie, you might want to check the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDb) for fun film facts and song information, if it’s available. You might be surprised to see what types of classical pieces or popular songs have been used in the background.

Music in slasher films or darker movies can be pretty challenging for songwriters to write, because the melody has to help set the tone for the movie or contribute to the mood. For example, the Theme Song from EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, which was composed by Danny Elfman, immediately gave the film an almost gothic, dark fairytale feel. On the other hand, the song Coconut used in PRACTICAL MAGIC ended up being part of the story.

Here at Musicnotes, one of the most popular collection of movie songs, is the sheet music from NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Of course, CORPSE BRIDE is pretty popular, too, but Jack Skellington continues to be an annual Halloween favorite for many of you.

For other interesting films, we recommend taking a peek at this selection of sheet music from Halloween movies and TV shows:

• Beetlejuice
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
• John Carpenter’s Halloween
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• New Moon
• Shaun of the Dead
• Interview With A Vampire
• Friday the 13th
• Psycho

Be sure to check out our Halloween sheet music page for more song suggestions including sheet music perfect for kids, too!

On Friday, October 23, 2009, the second annual Women Rock for the Cure will take place at several music and restaurant venues throughout Madison. Musicnotes is a proud sponsor of this event and will also be offering a night of musical entertainment called the Musicnotes Hootenanny at the Hemingway Lounge in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. For $3, music lovers will hear performances by Blue Beyond, Juice Jenkins, The Mudangels, Meaghan Owens and Tom Nauman.

$1.00 from each admission to the Musicnotes Hootenanny will be donated to the Madison Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Seventy-five percent of the funds raised will support breast health and breast cancer programs in Madison and Dane County.

Please visit http://www.womenrockmadison.com for more information about this venue and other events taking place for Women Rock for the Cure. To attend the Musicnotes Hootenanny, visit the Hemingway Lounge located at 2960 Cahill Main, Fitchburg, Wisconsin from 8-12 p.m. on Friday, October 23rd.

About Musicnotes Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of 100,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Disney Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others. Musicnotes is included in Internet Retailer Magazine’s list of the Top 500 Online Retailers and was recently selected by Internet Retailer as a “Hot 100″ site for 2009.

On the Web: http://www.musicnotes.com

About the Madison Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure The Madison Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure—along with those who generously support us with their talent, time and resources—is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in our community. We join more than 100,000 breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Madison Race for the Cure, we have invested over $1.8 million in local breast health and breast cancer awareness projects in Madison and Dane County. Up to 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the Komen Madison Affiliate stay in Dane County while the remaining income goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Award and Research Grant Programs supporting research, awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.

Join us by calling (608) 836-1083 or visiting us online at http://www.komenmadison.org

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure, We have invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit http://www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.

SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a Broadway show that first appeared on stage in the late 1970s. Based on a character from the Penny Dreadful serial novel from the mid-1860s, this spooky barber cut more than his client’s hair. Assisted by Mrs. Lovett who bakes his victims into her pies, this is definitely one of the creepier shows ever to hit the stage on Broadway. Songs include Green Finch and Linnet Bird, Not While I’m Around and The Worst Pies in London.

Man-eating plants from outer space, frightening dentists and big hair run amok in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The show has a little bit of a “B”-movie feel to it. A popular show for a lot of kids, songs include Suddenly, Seymour, Somewhere That’s Green and Feed Me.

Both PHANTOM and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA were inspired by the 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra written by Gaston Leroux. The story of a disfigured man-in-the-shadows who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Christine may be part romance, but it’s also a terrifying and tragic story, too. Over the years, the phantom’s signature mask has inspired many Halloween costumes. The new PHANTOM is more like the original novel than the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, but both offer memorable and haunting songs like Think of Me and Home.

Other Broadway shows perfect for Halloween include WICKED, JEKYLL AND HYDE, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

New Moon Sheet Music New Releases!

This week, we’ve added two classical pieces from the brand new NEW MOON soundtrack. Both of these songs are part of the bonus track on the CD, and sheet music is available for instant download.

• Die Fledermaus — Duettino: Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir performed by APM Orchestra
• Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D.768 performed by Ulf Bastlein

Be sure to watch Musicnotes.com for more updates about upcoming sheet music for New Moon.

Join Your Fellow Music Lovers on Facebook!

Have you visited Musicnotes on Facebook? We have been having a lot of fun on our Facebook page. Many of you have chimed in and offered us feedback or enjoyed our Facebook-specific contests. When you become a fan of us on Facebook, we’ll offer you some sneak previews that will show up in your updates.

Thank you so much for sharing your love of music! We hope you continue playing and practicing your favorite songs!

And if you’re on Facebook…we’ll see you there!

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Several of these songs have vocals and, in anticipation of your requests, we are offering you the chance to transpose your song before you download it from our store. Simply go to your favorite sheet; if a transposition is available, you can choose the key you need on the right hand menu bar.

If you’re a fan of contemporary Christian music, you might also be interested in finding out that we have sheet music for Hillsong’s album Faith+Hope+Love. Here are a few other new albums by Christian artists that we’ve added sheet music for:

Take Over album by Aaron Shust

In The Hands of God album by Newsboys

One World/One God album by Ken Reynolds

Come Alive album by Mark Schultz

In addition to the songs from these new albums, we’ve also added several new contemporary Christian sheet music songs that you’ve requested. Many of these songs appear on the Billboard Top Christian Song Charts, too!

• Revelation Song by Phillips, Craig & Dean
• More Beautiful You by Jonny Diaz
• Lead Me To The Cross by Newsboys, Chris and Conrad
• City On Our Knees by tobyMac
• Born Again by Third Day
• The Motions by Matthew West
• Until the Whole World Hears by Casting Crowns
• I Will Rise by Chris Tomlin
• Lay ‘Em Down by Needtobreathe
• Hold My Heart byTenth Avenue North
• The Words I Would Say by Sidewalk Prophets
• Speaking Louder Than Before by Jeremy Camp
• The Lost Get Found by Britt Nicole
• Perfect People by Natalie Grant
• Wait and See by Brandon Heath
• He Is by Mark Schultz
• It’s Your Life by Francesca Battistelli
• Sing, Sing, Sing by Chris Tomlin
• Glorious by Newsboys
• Follow You by Leeland (with Brandon Heath)
• What Do I Know of Holy by Addison Road
• Jesus Calling by 33Miles
• Glory To God, Forever by Fee
• How He Loves by The David Crowder Band
• To God Alone by Aaron Shust
• Beautiful Ending by BarlowGirl
• Tears Fall by BarlowGirl
• Hero by Skillet
• Just To Be With You by Paul Baloche

One song you might be interested in reading more about is our post about the Monster Mash song history. Monster Mash is one of several songs featured on our Halloween sheet music page, and it’s also one of the Top 25 Best-Selling Halloween Songs from 2007, too.

From Harry Potter sheet music to Creepy Theme Songs from Old TV Shows, we have a huge selection of Halloween sheet music for you to enjoy.

Check out these brand new creepy songs from some of your favorite Halloween movies!

• The Haunted House from John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN
• Halloween 1963 from John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN
• Ave Satani from THE OMEN
• Theme Song from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
• Theme Song from FRIDAY THE 13th (1980)

Also new to Musicnotes.com is our broad selection of Twilight sheet music, too!

25 Top-Selling Halloween Songs from 2008

Still not sure what you might want to play or sing for Halloween? We’d like to share with you the twenty-five most popular Halloween songs from last year. This list of songs represents the best-selling sheets from our site. There are some interesting songs in this list, many of which come from movies like THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

If you’re looking for a great way to save money, we’d also like to point out that two of our Halloween sheet music collections are really popular. First, there’s the complete collection of sheet music from Tim Burton’s THE NIGHMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, which offers all of your favorite songs from the movie. Next, our collection of Songs for a Spooky Halloween offers you a broad selection of nine Halloween songs for you to enjoy.

Here are the twenty-five most popular songs from last year. Are there any Halloween songs on this list that you love to play?

1. Main Theme from HALLOWEEN
2. This Is Halloween from A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
3. Sally’s Song from A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
4. Monster Mash
5. What’s This? from A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
6. Witch Doctor
7. Jack’s Lament from A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
8. Halloween 1978 from HALLOWEEN
9. Purple People Eater
10. Teddy Bears’ Pinic – Halloween Version
11. Theme Song from THE ADDAMS FAMILY
12. Tears To Shed from CORPSE BRIDE
13. Theme Song from TALES FROM THE CRYPT
14. Oogie Boogie’s Song from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
15. The Great Pumpkin Waltz from PEANUTS
16. Moon Dance from CORPSE BRIDE
17. Mysterious March
18. Bat Dance
19. Frankenstein’s Footsteps
20. Midnight Rendezvous (Halloween)
21. Theme Song from THE MUNSTERS
22. It’s a Monster’s Holiday
23. II The City from PSYCHO
24. Somethin’ In the Swamp
25. V The Cellar from PSYCHO