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The Best Famous Carols on Piano Easy
May
Christmas may be everybody’s favourite time of the year, therefore, it is never too early to get into the Christmas spirit.
Whether you are a piano beginner or advanced, playing Christmas songs on the piano will always make you, and everyone around you, feel warm in the cold weather, and really into the Christmas mood.
Here is our top list of Christmas carols to learn on the piano.
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells is one of the most known and most commonly sung Christmas carol there is, and one of the best piano pieces to learn as a beginner!
Loved by both children and adults, this easy to play, easy to sing song gets everyone in a festive mood. Although first written as a drinking song, it soon became Christmassy in the 1860/the 70s and was the first song broadcasted from space in a Christmas themed prank by Gemini 6 astronauts.
Here’s the Music Score, you can also search for piano tutorials online!
Silent Night
Silent Night is one of the most religious songs, written over 202 years ago it talks about the calm of the night when baby Jesus was born. The composition was then translated into over 300 languages with many different arrangements for various voices and ensembles.
When the original manuscript was lost, there were speculations saying that the song was written by Haydn, Beethoven or Mozart.
Then, in 1994, an original manuscript was found in Mohr’s handwriting, with Gruber named as the composer of the piece. It is one of the most famous Christmas Carols on piano.
Learn to play it with this Music Score
Walking In The Air
Walking In The Air was written for a popular Christmas film called the Snowman which was created by Raymond Briggs and first shown in 1978.
The track became increasingly popular after the film was released and has been covered by over forty artists, in a variety of styles.
Dianne Jackson, English animation director, worked on The Snowman turning it into a short film in 1982 for television, which became an instant hit. Howard Blake, an English music composer composed the music for this famous short film.
Learn to play it on the piano now! Music Score
White Christmas
According to the Guinness world book of records, White Christmas is the best selling single of all time. It first aired on radio on Christmas Day in 1941 and was written by Irving Berlin. But the song has a sadder meaning than we may know.
Berlins three-week-old son died on Christmas Day and each year he and his wife would go and visit the grave, hence the song was born. This song has been covered by multiple lists of music celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Lady Gaga.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine wrote the classic song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” for Judy Garland’s 1944 movie, Meet Me in St. Louis.
In 2007, ASCAP ranked it as the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP member. It is one of the most beautiful Christmas piano pieces to learn and of course, one of the best Christmas carols of all time.
We Wish you A Merry Christmas
This carol broke the traditional religious expectation of carols and brought humour to it. After the performance of Christmas carols was banned in 1647-1660, the church rebelled and saved Christmas carols by going door to door.
In 1953 Arthur Warrell rearranged We Wish You A Merry Christmas and was later published by the Oxford University Press. It is one of the easiest christmas carols for piano and a very famous one too!
O Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree is a German song originally called O Tannenbaum. Based on a traditional folk song that never was related to Christmas. Eventually, this song became associated with the traditional Christmas tree by the middle of the 19th century and sung as a Christmas carol ever since.
The modern lyrics were written in 1824, by the Leipzig organist, teacher and composer Ernst Anschütz. The lyrics originally referred to the evergreen quality as a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.
Joy To The World
Joy To The World is another carol that was not originally intended for Christmas.
Isaac Watts is considered one of the main hymn writers in church history. Watts’s most famous book of poems was written in the way that every poem was based on a Psalm. One of those was an adaptation of Psalm 98 interpreted as a celebration of Jesus’s role: King of his church and the world. More than a hundred years later, the second half of this poem was adapted to music to give us what then became one of the most famous of all Christmas carols.
Away In A Manger
Up Until a century ago, it still was believed that this famous Carol was by Martin Luther, German priest, which led to the carol being named Luther’s Cradle Song. But historians have disproved this belief as none of Luther’s writings mentioned the song and no German text for the carol was founded earlier than 1934.
It’s now believed the carol originated in the Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School collection Little Children’s Book for Schools and Families, which was published in 1885.
Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
This carol refers to Santa Claus main reindeer Rudolph who uses his red nose to light the way and fly the slay at night so Santa can deliver the presents. When Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer came out at Christmas 1939, it was an instant hit and is still an incredibly popular song today, sang by many kids all over the world.
Johnny Marks wrote the song and by jotting notes in a notebook and soon after it was said that Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer was the second biggest-selling Christmas song of all times behind White Christmas.
Which is your favourite Christmas Carol?