Free Christmas Sheet Music

Deck The Halls With Great Music For Your Instrument!

When the Christmas season approaches nothing can set the mood better than playing a few of your favorite old time Christmas Carols. The problem is that most web sites that claim to offer free sheet music only offer music for piano or for guitar. The sites and pages included here provide free sheet music for all common concert band instruments, such as flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, or even tuba!

There is nothing quite like having a cheery gathering of relatives and having your young musicians in the family to play a few Christmas carols to liven things up. Thanks to the sites on these pages, finding the best Christmas sheet music files for your young artist is no longer a problem!

What if you can't find the song you want for your instrument?

Fear not, for transposition is a wonderful thing!

Here are some tips for playing a piece of sheet music on your instrument if the music itself is written for a different instrument:

1) If you play trombone or baritone, you can play alto saxophone music instead. Just pretend that the treble clef is a bass clef, remove two sharps from the key signature (or add two flats) and play the music the way you normally would.

2) If you play trumpet, tenor saxophone, or clarinet you can play any of the others on your instrument without changing a thing. The only problem? Often clarinet and tenor sax parts will go higher than a beginner trumpet player can handle.

3) Violin players can play most flute parts.

4) Cello players can play trombone or baritone parts.

5) Bass players should check the trombone, baritone, or tuba parts to see if they fall within your range.

Free Christmas and Holiday Sheet Music

Melody parts for the most famous Christmas Carols

The links below refer to sheet music files of various Christmas Carols, all arranged for common concert band instruments. The files can be downloaded in PDF or in Sibelius SIB formats. Some can even be played in your browser or altered into any key that you choose.

Deck The Halls: Free sheet music for the traditional Christmas Carol Deck The Halls, originally based on a 16th century welsh folk song.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Concert band instrumental solo parts for God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Ode To Joy: Not really a Christmas Carol, but still a famous piece of music that many enjoy during the holidays.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas: Free sheet music for We Wish You A Merry Christmas. Parts available for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, and tuba.
We Three Kings: We Three Kings of Orient Are... Bringing free sheet music for the holiday season!
Angels We Have Heard on High: Free sheet music for the Christmas Carol, Angels We Have Heard on High.
The Twelve Days of Christmas: The longest Christmas Carol on the list, this one has music for all twelve days. Parts available for all common concert band instruments.
Silent Night: It's not the Mannheim Steamroller version, but it is still pretty to play and wonderful to listen to.
Joy To The World: This document contains links to free sheet music for the vocal and instrumental melody parts to the traditional Christmas carol, Joy To The World.

Christmas Carol Books from Amazon

Not free, but still nice to have!