Music During the Christmas Holidays During the Christmas holidays, music in a variety of forms is popular world wide.
From traditional holiday carols or songs to instrumental versions and related movie themes, music is very much a part of the holiday season celebrations.
The music of the holidays forms such animportant role that during the holiday season other forms of popular music temporarily disappear from radios, Musaks and background music heard in stores, private offices, public transportation systems and other public venues.
Many different types of music from religiously-based forms to popular vocals, traditional and classical versions pervade the air from after the Thanksgiving holiday until just after the New Year.
Adaptations of Popular Christmas Music Christmas music has been adapted by musical artists and performers who re-record classic types of music with their own personal style.
Perhaps a reason for adaptations of popular Christmas music is that most other genres of popular music are not commonly broadcast or played during the holiday season, so pop, rock and other genre musicians perform their own versions of Xmas music to keep up their own "air time" and popularity with the general public.
Popular, contemporary musicians also be want to take advantage of Christmas music's popularity.
It is now a regular trend for popular music performers like Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey to release new Christmas holiday music albums during the season.
Variety is the spice of life, as they say, which typically means that there are new renditions of secular, sacred, classical or traditional and popular renditions of Xmas music each holiday season.
Christmas music is used to create a holiday mood.
Seasonal music helps to promote the holiday feeling or spirit that pervades everywhere and almost everyone.
Each of us has our own Christmas holiday favorites when it comes to music.
Some like traditional holiday carols.
Others like the instrumental versions of holiday music, while there are those who look forward to new releases of holiday favorites my music artists each year.
Christmas songs and carols often bring back special memories of past holiday seasons.
Popular Christmas Songs The world's most popular Christmas song is "White Christmas" (both Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra had popular versions) which strangely, is popular even in tropical climates like those in Latin America, where people dream of a "white Christmas" even though it never snows where they live.
Some additional popular holiday songs are: "Away in a Manger", "O Holy Night", "Silent Night", "Joy to the World", "Hark the Herald Angels" and "Angels We Have Heard on High", which all relate the story of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, in one musical form or another.
In the traditional classical music genre, Handel's majestic "Hallelujah Chorus" is a popular favorite that choirs like to sing owing to the splendor, magnificence and majesty of the chorus.
Nat King Cole One popular music favorite of note is jazz pianist and pop singer Nat King Cole singing "Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire".
He was a top-rated musician of the 1940s, 50s and early 1960s.
Although not categorized as holiday music per se, it has become a holiday music tradition in many countries, even non-English speaking ones.
There are several songs which are humorous in nature, two examples are "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" So relax and enjoy the music of the Christmas holiday season.
You'll hear these songs and your favorites only during this special time of the year.