One of my favorite things about Christmas is the music! It is just the sublimest of all. So today I’m sharing my favorite resources for Christmas music, which includes old and new songs.

Let’s start with the basics. First is the book of Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It has the basic traditional Christmas carols of “Silent Night,” “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem,” etc. I prefer the spiral-bound edition so it stays open on the rack above a piano keyboard.

Second is the songbook above. I got this from the BYU Bookstore (now known as the BYU Store) for my 16th birthday. I eagerly took to playing as many songs from it on the piano as I could. It is out of print but you can find used copies from booksellers online. Check ebay first then if you can’t find it there use addall.com to find the cheapest copy. (You might have to search by the ISBN number of  978-0895771056 in addall instead of the title.)

This image below shows one of the later editions. I love both covers! So vintage looking!

It has come in so handy through the years to take to our extended family gatherings so I could accompany the family singing, as well as for our nuclear family singing on Christmas Eve and Day. It has almost every “old” Christmas song I can think of: all the traditional carols, plus songs like Jingle Bells, plus the Christmas songs that have been written in the 1900s like “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “White Christmas,” “Rudolph,” “Up on the Housetop,” “Frosty,” “Mele Kalikimaka,” “We Need a Little Christmas,” etc. The ones it doesn’t include are: “Silver Bells” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. It has different editions. Maybe the later editions have some of those songs. Fortunately, I have found those songs in the book below.

OK, now we are moving into lesser-known Christmas songs. The new collection of hymns from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called Hymns– for Home and Church has a few songs that aren’t in either of the books above or the old hymnbook. The Christmas and Easter songs start at #1201.

Some of these Christmas songs are:

“Still, Still, Still” which is here

“He is Born the Divine Christ Child” over here

“Star Bright” found here

Maren Ord Bushman wrote “Born to be a King.” This is probably my absolute favorite Christmas song. You can watch Maren sing it and play it above. I love, love, love playing this song on the piano. When I do, I feel like I am bouncing on jingling bells and playing chimes all at the same time. It is is just so fun to play! You can get the sheet music here. I have a little story to go with this song, a little Christmas miracle, which you can read about here. Maren’s website is here. She is an amazing musician! Then the official music video is below. I am so grateful to Maren for writing this song. It just makes me happy! It’s a great way to start the day, when I play this on the piano as a call for our morning family prayer.

Then there’s Christmas music here by Shawna Belt Edwards. Her latest Christmas song is below.

Then the video below shows many of her Christmas songs. You can get the sheet music here.

Just like Shawna, Sally Deford has written so many beautiful Christmas songs! One of them is shown in the video below. You can get her music here, and it’s all free for noncommercial use.

Then there is music published in the magazines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1971 on. These magazines are The Friend, The New Era, later renamed For the Strength of Youth, and The Ensign, later renamed The Liahona.

I have curated the music from 1971 to 2020. My Celestial Family Devotionals Ebook has this music linked to the internet under the December section. You can get the ebook for free here. You can print all this music for free by clicking on the links and then printing them. I have a binder to keep all this music together with a beautiful Nativity scene on the cover that I got from on the LDS Church magazines.

This month of December 2025 the Friend, which is for children, has this song here by Janice Kapp Perry called “Somewhere a Baby Sleeps.” Hooray, a new-to-me children’s song by Sister Perry!

Speaking of Janice Kapp Perry, her Christmas music is over here. You can only get hard copy CDs or songbooks, no digital downloads. That link also includes music from her daughter Lynne Perry Christofferson.

I hope you enjoy all this music!!! May it bring the spirit of Christ, of love, light, life, liberty, and joy into your home and heart!